The planes built after 1908 all had Wright type propellors. Before they saw Wilbur's prop in 1908 they all used snow shovels and doggy paddles for propellors, and nobody could fly. After 1908 everybody could fly because they used the Wright prop.
There is one of those in Argentina. That Bleriot was used to first cross the River Plate basin (the world widest, with 40km), in a Record Flight over Water, on 1912 by Teodoro Fels. Still intact but I don't know if its airworthy condition. Congrats for the Bleriot!
The engine is completely authentic, allthough engines may have been swapped between different individuals in this production-batch during subsequent service. The engine is a generic Gnome 50, Omega, manufactured entirely by AETA, Enoch Thulins Aeroplane Works in Landskrona, Sweden, and is a copy of the french original with genuine monosoupape induction with inlet-valve in each piston. AETA produced some 75 of these 50 hp engines between 1915 and 1918. and fitted them as standard to the Blériot.
"the engine is not authentic" Good lord man ! One of the most difficult ( to fly ) combinations of rotary engine and wing warping flight controls and that is the comment! Thats like saying the pope is not catholic enough....
Was there a throttle, or was rpm control entirely by switching the ignition on and off? Bleriot had balls of case-hardened steel to fly that thing out over the English Channel. You could recognise an airman by the odour of Caster oil which clung to him and was flung out of the engine.
+NJPurling There is no throttle i the machine, but, as you write yourself, there is only the switching on/off to Control the engine's output effect. In Swedish the tecnique is called "rattering". Mr. Carlson has performed the same channel crossing twice, as Louise Bleriot did in 1909. The latest crossing over the English Channel by Mikael was in 2009, in the centennial celebration of the first crossing. A feature can be found on TeamM's DVD "Air Show Special 2009" (google it!).
Much more 'grunt' from the rotary, compared with the Anzani! There may be an aircraft with more induced drag built in.... I cannot imagine a deadstick landing on this type! There were so many variations as the Bleriot evolved, that authenticity is a bit hard to prove. As long as it hasn't got Rotax on the engine.... Nice to see an aircraft, sorry flying machine, that reminds us of how far we have come.
Ya gotta recpect a design that's over a hundred years old, but can still take to the clouds with it's modern cousins. If I had the money & spare time, I'd build one, get my pilot's licence, go up, & only come down to refuel!
+Dom Degood You are quite right! Here are some infomation, copied and pasted from Mikael Carlson's webpage: "Mikael Carlson owns and flies two of these Blériot XI’s, orginally built by AETA - AB Enoch Thulins Aeroplanfabrik - under the name Thulin A. The first one was found by Mikael in a barn in the late 80’s, disassembled but complete. Mikael restored it to flying condition, took off for the first time in 1991 and have been flying it regularly every year since then. This plane has not only participated in a number of air displays and film productions all over the world but it is also the plane in which Mikael recreated the crossing of the English Channel in 1999, exactly 90 years after Louis Blériot! The restoration of Mikael’s second Blériot XI was completed in October 2004 and despite the unpredictable Swedish autumn weather all flight tests were completed only weeks later. Mikael crossed the English Channel with this plane to celebrate 100 year anniversary of Bleriot’s flight. Both aeroplanes are equipped with original 7 cylinder Gnôme-Omega 50 hp rotary engines 1908 model, engines of course restored by Mikael himself."
@@TilleTeamM The engine looked like a new reproduction in this video, compliments to Mikael for doing such thorough work on it to make it look like new and run so happy.
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Congratulations from Canada.
amazing. may we have English sub titles please? thank you
The planes built after 1908 all had Wright type propellors. Before they saw Wilbur's prop in 1908 they all used snow shovels and doggy paddles for propellors, and nobody could fly. After 1908 everybody could fly because they used the Wright prop.
Thanks, english title but no subtitles. Well done...
There is one of those in Argentina. That Bleriot was used to first cross the River Plate basin (the world widest, with 40km), in a Record Flight over Water, on 1912 by Teodoro Fels. Still intact but I don't know if its airworthy condition. Congrats for the Bleriot!
That's pretty awesome
I would love to take one of these for a fly and in my view this design was way ahead of all others at the time, and it looks great too :-)
The engine is completely authentic, allthough engines may have been swapped between different individuals in this production-batch during subsequent service.
The engine is a generic Gnome 50, Omega, manufactured entirely by AETA, Enoch Thulins Aeroplane Works in Landskrona, Sweden, and is a copy of the french original with genuine monosoupape induction with inlet-valve in each piston. AETA produced some 75 of these 50 hp engines between 1915 and 1918. and fitted them as standard to the Blériot.
"the engine is not authentic" Good lord man ! One of the most difficult ( to fly ) combinations of rotary engine and wing warping flight controls and that is the comment!
Thats like saying the pope is not catholic enough....
I would assume that with an English title to this video that dialogue would be in english or that subtitles would be given.
Was there a throttle, or was rpm control entirely by switching the ignition on and off?
Bleriot had balls of case-hardened steel to fly that thing out over the English Channel.
You could recognise an airman by the odour of Caster oil which clung to him and was flung out of the engine.
+NJPurling There is no throttle i the machine, but, as you write yourself, there is only the switching on/off to Control the engine's output effect. In Swedish the tecnique is called "rattering". Mr. Carlson has performed the same channel crossing twice, as Louise Bleriot did in 1909. The latest crossing over the English Channel by Mikael was in 2009, in the centennial celebration of the first crossing. A feature can be found on TeamM's DVD "Air Show Special 2009" (google it!).
Weren't those rotary engined planes tricky to fly? I refer to the gyroscopic effect.
lovely. A gentleman's aerial carriage.
Much more 'grunt' from the rotary, compared with the Anzani!
There may be an aircraft with more induced drag built in.... I cannot imagine a deadstick landing on this type! There were so many variations as the Bleriot evolved, that authenticity is a bit hard to prove. As long as it hasn't got Rotax on the engine....
Nice to see an aircraft, sorry flying machine, that reminds us of how far we have come.
Do these planes have horizontal stabilizers with upward lift?
Yes I think so but not sure
Yes
@@leifvejby8023 Thank you Leif.
Ya gotta recpect a design that's over a hundred years old, but can still take to the clouds with it's modern cousins.
If I had the money & spare time, I'd build one, get my pilot's licence, go up, & only come down to refuel!
The engine is not an Anzani.
+Dom Degood You are quite right! Here are some infomation, copied and pasted from Mikael Carlson's webpage:
"Mikael Carlson owns and flies two of these Blériot XI’s, orginally built by AETA - AB Enoch Thulins Aeroplanfabrik - under the name Thulin A. The first one was found by Mikael in a barn in the late 80’s, disassembled but complete. Mikael restored it to flying condition, took off for the first time in 1991 and have been flying it regularly every year since then. This plane has not only participated in a number of air displays and film productions all over the world but it is also the plane in which Mikael recreated the crossing of the English Channel in 1999, exactly 90 years after Louis Blériot!
The restoration of Mikael’s second Blériot XI was completed in October 2004 and despite the unpredictable Swedish autumn weather all flight tests were completed only weeks later. Mikael crossed the English Channel with this plane to celebrate 100 year anniversary of Bleriot’s flight.
Both aeroplanes are equipped with original 7 cylinder Gnôme-Omega 50 hp rotary engines 1908 model, engines of course restored by Mikael himself."
@@TilleTeamM The engine looked like a new reproduction in this video, compliments to Mikael for doing such thorough work on it to make it look like new and run so happy.
Were not some XIs fitted with Gnomes?
Hmm... wish I could fly a Bleriot and have a Swedish wife...
the engine is not authentic great plane anyway
The engine is the same make, model and vintage that the thing was flown with 100 years ago, but you are right, a modern man has renovated it!
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