#Blériot XI

[the-man-in-the-wind]

The oldest airworthy, and still flying, aircraft and engine in the world.

Blériot Type XI No. 14, G-AANG, with its Anzani three-cylinder W Engine, at The Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden.

One of the ‘Edwardians’, this 114 year old plane occasionally makes small hops down the runway on especially calm summer evenings.

Taken by @the-man-in-the-wind

[accessibleaesthetics]

Earlier this year, I went to Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, and I was struck by who I saw using some of the accessibility features of the exhibits.

[Image Description: Photo of the Command Module Columbia exhibit at Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. The command module, which sits behind glass, is a full-size truncated cone with a docking probe and dish-shaped aft heat shield. In front of the glass is a sign with information about the command module on the left, a photograph in the middle, and a labeled smaller model on the right. The smaller model is labeled in both slightly raised text and Braille, and has a slightly raised hand icon next to it inside of a yellow speech bubble. End Image Description.]

This exhibit, like several others, included a part of the sign you were supposed to touch, as indicated by the hand symbol. This meant that people who couldn't see the actual thing behind the glass could get a very good idea of what every part of it looked like by touching the model and reading the label, which was offered in both raised letters and Braille.

[Image Description: Close up of the right side of the exhibit sign from the previous image. The light shining on the black surface of the exhibit sign shows darker spots where people left fingerprints. The entire Braille label is a near solid dark spot. End Image Description.]

This is obviously very cool and it's great that they invested inclusive design. But what really struck me about this was how much it was being used. You can tell from the photo that the Braille part of the sign has had many fingers on it, but I don't actually think all of those were from members of the target audience.

I could be wrong, of course, you can never really tell if someone is blind or low vision simply by looking at them. But I saw multiple children come up and run their hands over the smaller model mounted to the sign. At least one of them was running their fingers along the Braille too.

And it wasn't just children either. I saw at least one adult (other than myself) interacting with a similar model in another exhibit, one of a footprint on the moon. This one openly encouraged you to touch it rather than just implying permission like the one in this picture did. And that got me thinking: how many more adults would be doing the same thing the kids were if they weren't held back by this unspoken "oh, this feature is not for me" assumption? There are many haptic learners out there, after all.

If the people who design these museums realized the potential for a curb cut effect here, how many more exhibits would have these features?

And having full three-dimensional modules for people to touch weren't the only thing this museum offered either. You don't have to have all that to make the sign more user-friendly to those who have trouble seeing it.

[Image Description: A sign with a two-dimensional diagram of the Blériot XI aircraft. Each part of the illustration, including the person next to it for size, is slightly raised off the surface of the sign. All words on the diagram are labeled in both raised text and Braille. Beside the diagram is a slightly raised hand icon next to it inside of a yellow speech bubble. The labeled parts are the front, propeller, rudder, and elevator, most of which have arrows pointing to the respective parts of the illustration. End Image Description.]

You can make two-dimensional diagrams accessible too.

Finally, as an aside, the videos at the exhibits, the ones you could play on your own, all had open captions, and at least one had open audio descriptions as well.

[alex99achapterthree]

Dark Aircraft...

Dark Blériot Type XI.

Dark aircraft have a long and hallowed history stretching back to the dawn of aviation.

(actually it is just an excuse for me to post these cool aircraft silhouette images.)

[szappan]

cat stand up comedians would be like hey guys check out my human baby impression. now check out my chirping bird impression. i call this one the blériot xi. good right? ok thats all ive got lol

[autophage]

The Blériot XI was such a beautiful design. Primitive by today's standards, sure, but look at this thing! What grace and elegance! Also while it's no longer considered a good idea, it doesn't have normal control surfaces on the wings - instead the controls warp the entire shape of the wing, instead of just wiggling flaps.

And there are still examples that fly today! They are over a hundred years old!

[gamerbulten]

Dünyanın en eski uçağı Flight Simulator modu olarak karşınızda İngiliz Kanalı'nı ilk kez geçmeyi başara...

[pepikhipik]

Roland Garros není jen tenis

V nadcházejících týdnech určitě hodně uslyšíte o #RolandGarros, ale věděli jste, že spíše než ničivý forhend nebo hedvábný jednoručný bekhend to byla jeho oslnivá kariéra letce, která zapsala jeho jméno do historie?

Garros se narodil 6. října 1888 v Saint-Denis de La Réunion.

Historie neuvádí, v kolika letech odpálil svůj první míč, ale právě když se v roce 1909 během dovolené v kontinentální Francii zúčastnil Grande Semaine d'Aviation de la Champagne, projevila se u tohoto sportovního nadšence vášeň pro letectví.

19. července 1910 získal Roland Garros pilotní průkaz č. 147 od Aéro-Club de France na letišti Cholet (Maine-et-Loire). Byl to začátek jeho výjimečné letecké kariéry. Během osmi let vytvořil řadu rekordů a vyzkoušel a zdokonalil několik generací letadel.

Po získání pilotního průkazu odletěl Roland Garros do Spojených států, kde se zúčastnil mnoha leteckých přehlídek ve své "Demoiselle", vynálezu firmy Santos-Dumont. Za Atlantikem si pro svou obratnost a odvahu vysloužil přezdívku "Cloud Kisser".

Roland Garros s pilotováním letounu Blériot XI zúčastnil tří významných závodů v roce 1911: leteckého závodu Paříž-Madrid, který vyhrál Jules Védrines, závodu Paříž-Řím-Turín a Evropského okruhu, který dokončil na 2. místě s celkovým časem 62 h 17 min 16 s.

17. června 1912 vyhrál Roland Garros po dvoudenní soutěži Velkou cenu Aéro-Club de France, která se konala v Angers. Dne 6. září téhož roku odstartoval z pláže v Houlgate (Calvados) a vytvořil nový výškový rekord, kdy vystoupal do 4 950 m.

Dávno před homérskými souboji #Nadal, #Federer a #Djokovič je jméno Rolanda Garrose spojeno s jiným zápasem ve vysokém letu: s tím, který 8. června 1912 svedl s Edmondem Audemarsem, jenž vyhrál jejich závod na 50 km a 2 rychlostní závody ve stoupání a přistání.

Dne 23. září 1913 dosáhl Roland Garros svého nejvýznamnějšího úspěchu: za 8 hodin a v dantesovských letových podmínkách se mu podařilo z Fréjus doletět do Bizerte v Tunisku a uskutečnit tak první letecký přelet Středozemního moře na palubě letounu Morane-Saulnier Type H.

V dubnu 1914 vyhrál Roland Garros se svým letounem Morane-Saulnier No. 5 Monackou leteckou rallye - 1 140 km dlouhý okruh napříč Evropou, včetně 210 km dlouhé námořní trasy mezi Marseille, Janovem a Monakem, na kterou byly přihlášené letouny vybaveny plováky.

Jako dobrovolník ve Velké válce (První světové válce) získal #RolandGarros povolení k vývoji vynálezu inženýra Raymonda Saulniera: pevný kulomet umístěný v ose letadla, mezi pilotem a vrtulí.

Roland Garros, vybavený tímto revolučním systémem střelby přes vrtuli, dosáhl před svým sestřelením 3 certifikovaných vzdušných vítězství. Po třech letech věznění se mu podařilo v přestrojení za německého důstojníka uprchnout z Magdeburgu a vrátit se do Francie.

Při návratu do Escadrille 26 byl Roland Garros 5. října 1918 v předvečer svých 30. narozenin sestřelen ve Spadu XIII u Saint-Morel v Ardenách. Zmizel jen několik týdnů před uzavřením příměří 11. listopadu 1918.

Krátce po svém útěku byl Roland Garros 6. března 1918 před zraky své eskadry vyznamenán Řádem čestné legie.

K uctění jeho památky byl v roce 1927 po něm pojmenován tenisový stadion postavený v Porte d'Auteuil, který od té doby hostí French Open.

Zdroj ⬇️

[airmanisr]

Bleriot Type XI-2, Musee de l'Air, Le Bourget, 05-06-2022 by Gordon Riley Via Flickr: Produced in series, the Blériot XI-2 is a two-seater evolution of the type XI with which Louis Blériot crossed the Channel in 1909. Figure of the pre-war air shows, Adolphe Pégoud realizes in 1913, at the controls of an XI-2 with a reinforced structure, a then sensational acrobatics: the looping. The specimen exhibited, bearing the number 686, belonged to him.

[citylifeorg]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces Gift of a Rare American Weathervane

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces Gift of a Rare American Weathervane

Image: Blériot Model XI Monoplane weathervane, ca. 1909-13, copper with traces of original gilding; airplane:  57 ¼ x 55 x 10 in. (145.4 x 139.7 x 25.4 cm), directionals: 38 5/8 x 38 ½ x 15 ¾ in. (98.1 x 97.8 x 40 cm), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Michael and Patricia Del Castello. Photo credit: Michael Kent Lynberg. The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that it has received…

[yajifun]

新音譜追加目錄. 大正2年4月賣出　日本蓄音器商会　1913年 国立国会図書館デジタルコレクション

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木村德田兩中尉葬列の光景

※参照：航空歴史館 エッセイ 我が国初の空の犠牲者・徳田金一中尉について 山口県航空史研究会 古谷眞之助

[pazarlar-girisimler-firsatl-blog]

OSMANLI DÖNEMİNDE HAVACILIK ÇALIŞMALARI-1.BÖLÜM

Bugün sizlerle Osmanlı dönemindeki havacılık çalışmalarını iki bölümde inceleyeceğiz. 19. Yüzyılda ve 20. Yüzyılın başlarında Osmanlı İmparatorluğunun hem sivil alanda hem de savunma kuvveti olarak havacılıkta ne tür gelişmeler olmuştu, bunları kısaca anlatmaya çalışacağız. 17.YÜZYILDA OSMANLI HAVACILIK ÇALIŞMALARI 17 ve 18. yüzyılda, Lagari Hasan Çelebi’nin 7 kollu bir roketin atış gücünden…

[thisdayinwwi]

July 30 OTD in Flight

Jul 30 1914 OTD Norwegian Tryggve Gran became 1st pilot to cross the North Sea. Took off in his Blériot XI-2 monoplane, Ca Flotte, from Cruden Bay, Scotland. He landed 4 hours 10 minutes later at Jæren, near Stavanger, Norway.

Jul 30 1918 OTD In a dog-fight ACE pilot Lieutenant Frank Linke-Crawford, the fourth-highest-scoring Austro-Hungarian (27 victories), is shot down and killed by a pair of Italian Hanriot HD.1 fighters

Jul 30 1915 OTD At the St. Etienne Aerodrome, Le Bourget, France, a French official photographer takes this photo, IWM Q 115199, of French colonial Zouaves manning a St. Étienne Mle 1907 machine gun in anti-aircraft role. 30 July 1915-07-30

Jul 30 1918 #OTD Pictures of the Popham panel-system of visual signaling from the ground to aircraft at Beauval. The system fell out of use as radios in aircraft became more common. 

IWM Q 70880, IWM Q 60568

[aviationgeek71]

TDIH 1912, American aviatrix Harriet Quimby flew across the English Channel in a Blériot XI monoplane

[the-man-in-the-wind]

Bl��riot type XI ~ The oldest flying airframe/engine combination in the world.

Taken by: @the-man-in-the-wind Old Warden 18th May, 2019

[rose-dwhobny]

Balsa KIT with enging power 71“ Blériot XI S34