#blériot

[postcard-from-the-past]

Blériot monoplane on a vintage postcard

[francepittoresque]

25 juillet 1909 : première traversée de la Manche en aéroplane, réalisée par Louis Blériot ➽ http://bit.ly/Bleriot-Traversee-Manche Sans boussole ni carte, Louis Blériot décolle à 4h35 du matin en ce jour d’été 1909 du lieu-dit « Les Baraques » à Sangatte, près de Calais : son vol, qui se déroule sans souci, s’achève par un atterrissage assez violent, sans conséquence pour le pilote, près de Douvres dans la région du Kent, après un parcours de 38 km effectué en moins de 30 minutes

[amatlcomix]

CHAPELLIER, Philippe. Blériot, c. 1904. by Halloween HJB Via Flickr: Advertising poster for Blériot's intense, self-generating head-lamps for motor vehicles.

[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

[frenchcurious]

Robert Delaunay (1885-1941) - Hommage à Blériot, 1914. - source Arte Moderna.

[troquets]

Au Disque Bleu, Sangatte, Blériot-plage, Pas-de-Calais.

[gillesvalery]

Chaumont-sur-Tharonne (L'aviateur Louis Blériot) (1)

[identifying-planes-in-posts]

trick or treat!!!!! :33

You get:

Blériot XI

[postcard-from-the-past]

Blériot monoplane on a vintage postcard

[sepiadays]

The Blériot-SPAD S.510 was France's last biplane fighter; introduced in 1936 and already demoted to training service by 1940.

Fighter SPAD S-510

[francepittoresque]

25 juillet 1909 : première traversée de la Manche en aéroplane, réalisée par Louis Blériot ➽ http://bit.ly/Bleriot-Traversee-Manche Sans boussole ni carte, Louis Blériot décolle à 4h35 du matin en ce jour d’été 1909 du lieu-dit « Les Baraques » à Sangatte, près de Calais : son vol, qui se déroule sans souci, s’achève par un atterrissage assez violent, sans conséquence pour le pilote, près de Douvres dans la région du Kent, après un parcours de 38 km effectué en moins de 30 minutes

[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.)

[musicwithoutborders]

Brian Eno, Icarus or Blériot I FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE, 2022

[mateopgiraldo]

“Nuestra verdad está en nuestros sueños, en la imaginación; todo, a cada instante, confirma esta afirmación. La ficción ha precedido a la ciencia. Todo lo que soñamos, es decir, todo lo que deseamos, es verdadero (el mito de ícaro ha precedido a la aviación, y si Ader y Blériot volaron es porque todos los hombres soñaron con volar). Sólo el mito es verdadero: la historia, intentando realizarlo, lo desfigura, lo malogra en parte; es impostura, mixtificación, cuando pretende haberlo “logrado”. Todo lo que soñamos es realizable. La realidad no se propone ser realizable: es lo que es. El revolucionario, el que intenta cambiar el mundo, es en realidad el soñador, o el pensador, o el sabio.”

Notas y contranotas / Ionesco, E. (1964)

[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