A Blériot XII was the first airplane owned by the English sporting pilot, Claude Grahame-White. Grahame-White was one of Blériot’s first pupils, and was taught to fly at Issy in a duplicate of Blériot’s model XII. Grahame-White then took his Blériot XII from Issy to Pau.
Grahame-White managed to convince Blériot to build for him a duplicate of Blériot’s “big 60-hp monoplane.” On the day Grahame-White was to take delivery (of the Blériot XII) at Issy, Blériot was detained elsewhere.
Growing impatient, Grahame-White essentially taught himself to fly in his machine on the way to Pau. It was there in Pau that the machine crashed with Blériot at the controls and Grahame-White as a passenger. After that, Blériot decided that the XII was not worthy of further development, and he gave Grahame-White two Blériot XI airplanes as compensation for his lost model XII.
Span: 32’10”
Length: 31’2″
Speed: 62 mph
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