FILE -- This Sunday, July 25, 1909 file photo shows French aviator Louis Bleriot, wearing his flying helmet, after he had flown across the English Channel, and landed on a golf course at Dover, England. Louis Bleriot was declared crazy by his own mother. "He wants to fly over the English Channel in a kite," she complained to friends a century ago. Bleriot defied her and helped usher in commercial plane travel with an epic flight from Calais to Dover in 1909, aboard a winged contraption with bicycle wheels and wooden propeller. (AP Photo/file)

• People in this picture: Louis Bleriot
• Contributor: Associated Press / Alamy Stock Photo
• Image ID: 2P8885D
• File size: 18.8 MB (620.7 KB Compressed download)
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• Dimensions: 2239 x 2930 px | 19 x 24.8 cm | 7.5 x 9.8 inches | 300dpi
• Date taken: 24 July 2009
• Photographer: Associated Press

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