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    Here is a photo of the Bleriot full size replica which Henk van Hoorn flew across the Channel last year for the Lesseps flight centenary:
    Dutch Bleriot registration PH-BLE built to 1911 specifications: The pilot was Henk van Hoorn - flew from Calais to Dover on Thursday 20 May evening, landing at Waldershare.



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    TODAY is the 99th anniversary of Harriet Quimby's flight from Whitfield airfield, across the Channel. Next year will be the centenary.

    A short piece of film of her flight appears in the compilation of old film, on: http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=78523
    this is a fascinating old film, showing pre 1900 film,  London,  rise of the suffragette movement, what women had to put up with, coal mine work etc,  Buckingham Palace, London, yarmouth, hastings, 
    - a piece in middle shows Harriet Quimby the first woman to fly the Channel, in 1912 taking off from Whitfield airfield

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