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unusual facts about Blériot-SPAD S.34


S34

Blériot-SPAD S.34, a 1920 French twin-seat, single-engine biplane aircraft


Air Navigation and Engineering Company

The company was formed in 1919 when the Blériot & SPAD Manufacturing Company Limited was renamed.

Bleriot Heuyot

Bleriot Heuyot Tobit (born 27 November 1975 in Yaoundé) is a retired Cameroonian professional footballer.

Blériot VI

This event was witnessed by a large proportion of the French aviation community, including Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Ferdinand Ferber and the Voisin brothers: also among the spectators was Blériot's wife Alice, who had come to watch one of her husband's flights for the first time.

Blériot VII

On this occasion he succeeded in making a U-turn in the air, and the performance of the aircraft was impressive enough for Patrick Alexander to write "I think Blériot is now leading the way".

Blériot VIII

A similar control arrangement for roll and pitch control had been incorporated into an aircraft the previous year by Robert Esnault-Pelterie, but the Bleriot VIII was the first use in a single airframe of the combination of joystick and rudder pedals that is in use to the present day, for the basic format of aerodynamic aircraft control systems.

Bristol Prier monoplane

The Bristol Prier Monoplanes were a series of tractor configuration monoplanes designed for the Bristol and Colonial Aeroplane Company by Pierre Prier, the former head pilot of the Bleriot school at Hendon, who had joined Bristol in July 1911.

Édouard Bague

His Blériot monoplane was seriously damaged on landing, and Bague was injured.

Flaminio Avet

Avet transferred to aviation in early 1916; he made his first flight in a Blériot on 25 May 1916.

Goupy No.2

The Goupy No.2 was an experimental aircraft designed by Ambroise Goupy and Mario Calderara and built in France in 1909 at the Blériot factory at Buc.

Gustav Hamel

In the exploit for which he is best remembered, Hamel flew a Blériot on Saturday 9 September 1911, covering the 21 miles between Hendon and Windsor in 18 minutes (took off at 4:55pm and arrived at 5:13pm) to deliver the first official airmail to the Postmaster General.

Hamilton Coolidge

On October 27, 1918, he was killed in action, his SPAD S.XIII taking a direct hit from a German anti-aircraft shell near Grandpré, Ardennes.

Harold D. Kantner

Kantner built a Bleriot monoplane with a 50 horsepower Gnome engine in which he soloed on June 30, 1911 and was given Fédération Aéronautique Internationale certificate number 65 on October 14, 1911 in Mineola, New York.

James Armand Meissner

Now flying a SPAD S.XIII fighter, he scored four more kills, one of which was an observation balloon, and another of which was shared with Ralph O'Neill.

Jules Védrines

He was apprenticed to the Gnome engine manufacturing company, after which he spent six months in England as Robert Loraine's mechanic in 1910, and then returned to France, where he gained his pilot's license (no. 312) on 7 December 1910 at the Blériot school at Pau.

Luigi Olivari

On 15 June, he qualified on 50 horsepower Blériots; on 26 August 1915, it was on the 80 horsepower version.

Luigi Olivi

He was promoted again, to Sergente, on 31 July 1914, and sent off to aviation school at Aviano to train on Bleriots.

Marcel Desoutter

Desoutter's accident occurred at the London Aviation Meeting held at Hendon Aerodrome at Easter 1913: whilst flying his 50-h.p. Gnome-Blériot on the afternoon of 23 March, the control stick slipped from his hand and the Blériot dived into the ground at the edge of the aerodrome.

Oskar Bider

On November 8 of that year he joined Blériot's aviation school in Pau, situated in the northern Pyrenees.

Patrouille de France

Over in Dijon the "Weiser" team, consisting of 18 planes (Morane-Saulnier MS-225 and SPAD 510) gained fame for their team displays in which the planes were tied together.

SPAD S.VII

In February 1915, Swiss designer Marc Birkigt had created an overhead cam aviation powerplant based on his Hispano-Suiza V8 automobile engine, resulting in a 330 lb engine capable of producing 140 hp at 1,400 rpm.

SPAD S.XI

He personally flew reconnaissance missions in it when combat started in the Château-Thierry sector in July, 1918.

SPAD S.XII

The gun chosen for the SPAD 12 was not the old Hotchkiss cannon but a new 37 mm Semi Automatique Moteur Canon (SAMC), built by Puteaux, for which 12 shots were carried.

Yoshitoshi Tokugawa

On 23 April 1911, Tokugawa set a Japanese record with a Blériot, flying 48 miles in 1 hour 9 minutes 30 seconds.


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