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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 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.

Esnault-Pelterie R.E.P. 1

The Esnault-Pelterie R.E.P. 1 and the R.E.P. 2 were experimental aircraft built and flown in France in the early twentieth century by Robert Esnault-Pelterie.

Ottoman Air Force

The REP (Robert Esnault-Pelterie) was also one the first planes to be deployed by the Ottoman Empire.

Esnault-Pelterie R.E.P. 1

It was entered for the Grande Semaine d'Aviation in Reims in August 1909, but Esnault-Pelterie did not compete here owing to an injury to his hand.

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