Shown fitted to a Blériot XI, the 1911 Ponti parachute triangular construction would release a parachute in an emergency. When flying normally, Ponti’s invention would act somewhat like a second wing. When so needed, the parachute would be opened by a spring which given the flow of the air during flight would then inflate the parachute. A test was planned at Taliedo with pilot Deroy, but that did not take place.
De Lesseps in a Blériot Crossing the Channel
Pegoud’s Bleriot XI-2 in the main gallery of the Musee de l’Air at Le Bourget
Vickers 22
Bleriot XI Penguin ground trainer
Pau 1915
Bleriot XI Penguin ground trainer
1912 Bleriot XI final assembly
13 July 1909 – Louis Bleriot prior to flying Etampes to Orleans
1910 Bleriot XI “Circuit de l’Est”
August 1985
Bleriot XI with 6-cyl Anzani engine
Leblanc’s Bleriot XI
Leblanc’s Bleriot XI
No.14 / BAPC-3 with Shuttleworth collection
During the First Balkan War (1912–1913, Bulgarian airmen prepare to drop a bomb by hand on Adrianople (now Edirne, Turkey), from their Bleriot XI aircraft.
English Channel crossing landing in a meadow behind Dover Castle
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