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A narrow body of water separates England from the rest of Europe… between Dover and Calais it’s only 21 miles wide. Crossing it has become a bit of a right of passage for many forms of transport and aviators, with or without moustaches, have been no exception. These are the stories of some of those early attempts!
Jean-Pierre Blanchard rows across the channel in a balloon!
Louis Blériot sporting a fine aviator’s moustache!
Blériot completes the first crossing of the Channel by a heavier than air machine.
Harriet Quimby’s very fetching flying gear.
A captured Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 Drache.
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