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摘要

In a pretty brisk wind Swede Mikael Carlson flew his original Bleriot XI at 'Flying Legends' at Duxford, Cambs, last July. In the days when Louis Bleriot was the first to fly across the Channel, aviators did not aviate when it was windy at all if they could help it; they only took to the air at dawn and dusk when it was calm.rnUsed to thundering 'warbirds', the 'Flying Legends' audience was transfixed by this frail-looking monoplane, powered by a 100-year-old rotary. After hisrnincredible achievement, Louis found orders for his Type XI flooding in, with governments keen to acquire the machine that had changed the face of military planning.