Louis Blériot
French aviation pioneer
Died when: 64 years 32 days (769 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Louis Charles Joseph Blériot (/'bl?rio?/ BLERR-ee-oh, also US: /'ble?rio?, ?ble?ri'o?, bl??r'jo?/ BLAY-ree-oh, -?OH, blair-YOH, French: [lwi ble?jo]; 1 July 1872 – 1 August 1936) was a French aviator, inventor, and engineer.
He developed the first practical headlamp for cars and established a profitable business manufacturing them, using much of the money he made to finance his attempts to build a successful aircraft.
Blériot was the first to use the combination of hand-operated joystick and foot-operated rudder control as used to the present day to operate the aircraft control surfaces.
Blériot was also the first to make a working, powered, piloted monoplane.In 1909 he became world-famous for making the first airplane flight across the English Channel, winning the prize of £1,000 offered by the Daily Mail newspaper.
He was the founder of Blériot Aéronautique, a successful aircraft manufacturing company.
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