Bleriot XI (Model 1910) Pillow

The Bleriot XI (Model 1910) showed up at the 16th Oldtimer Fliegertreffen 2011 at the Hahnweide, near Kirchheim/Teck, Germany where this airplane is a regular visitor. The Hahnweide is a actually a glider airfield with a grass runway – which fits very good to this plane. Louis Bleriot – the plane designer himself – crossed with such an airplane the Engish Channel on July 25th, 1909 as first pilot ever. Further superlatives of this airplane type: first to cross the Alps, first military airplane, and first airplane ever being able to fly loopings. In fact a very famous and successful airplane in the early beginning of aviation. Mikael Carlson, a Swedish guy, discovered this specific airplane in a barn on a farm and brought it back into f...