The 1911 Bleriot XX “Le Poisson” (“Fish”) monoplane was designed and built by Louis Bleriot.
Bleriot XX Le Poisson / Fish
Piston
Bleriot XXXVI Torpille
The 1912 Bleriot XXXVI Torpille monoplane was designed and built by Louis Bleriot.
Span: 40’2″
Weight: 830 lb
Speed: 47 mph
Bleriot XXXIII Canard Bleu
Designed and built by Louis Bleriot in 1912.
Span: 34’6″
Length: 26’3″
Weight: 730 lb
Speed: 72 mph
Bleriot VIII
The original Type VIII that had been completely destroyed in a crash on July 23, 1908 from which Blériot walked away unharmed.
The Bleriot VIII was first modified to the VIII-bis and then the Bleriot VIII-ter.
The Type VIII ter appeared at Issy-les-Moulineaux in August 1908 as an improved replacement. Starting on August 12, numerous flights were made with the Type VIII ter. On October 31, 1908, Blériot flew 14 km from Toury to Artenay.
The Bleriot No.8 crashed a month after a successful 17-mile flight.
On November 4, 1908, the new machine was also wrecked, this time with Blériot not being so lucky, as he was severely injured in the crash.
Span: 36’9″ (later 27′(?)10″)
Weight: 1050 lb
Bleriot XL / 40
Looking superficially like a Henry Farman pusher biplane, the Type XL of 1913 differed noticeably from the HF by its undercarriage, nacelle and oval rudder. The machine was first presented in May at Salon de Turin, then later exhibited at the Paris Salon, but remained a singular example. It can also be found numbered arabically as the Blériot 40.
Bleriot 1910
The 1910 Bleriot monoplane was a metre shorter than the previous model, at 6.6m.
Bleriot 165
Operated by Air Union circa 1929.
Bleriot 125
The Bleriot B-125 had tandem Hispani-Suiza 500 hp engines as standard. Between the two powerplants is the pilot’s cabin while the passenger cabins are at the nose of each of the double fuselage. Each fuselage nose carriers six seats.
Bleriot Scout
Bleriot achieved little success with this streamlined monocoqe scout in 1915.
Bleriot XII
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
