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       Blériot glider
 
      
       Louis Bleriot would eventually build a 
      plane that would be the first to successfully cross the English Channel 
      (with himself at the controls), but this early powered glider, built to 
      his specifications by Gabriel Voisin, would never make it off the surface 
      of the Seine River where it was being tested. 
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