From: "Steve Bamford ARC" To: "Lucien Bosonnet" References: <01C3F92E.2BEA67E0@FS2K2> Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_1/10_Bl=E9riot_XI?= Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 01:46:45 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Unsent: 1 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Hi Lucien, Thanks for sending in your 1/10 Blériot XI article. It's a work of art. I love it. I'm catching up on a backlog of e-mails....sorry for the slow response. I'll e-mail you when your article goes on ARC. Steve Bamford Aircraft Resource Center http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com Live like there is no tomorrow; Love like you've never been hurt. Work like you don't need the money. Dance like nobody's watching. Sing like nobody's listening. Live like it's Heaven on Earth. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lucien Bosonnet" To: Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 1:25 AM Subject: 1/10 Blériot XI Hello Steve, Here is an old project, finished mid 2003. May I ask you to check my english in the text below... Thank you very much. Regards. Lucien Gallery Template #06 "1/10 Blériot XI" by "Lucien Bosonnet" -------------------- Steve Bamford will insert full sized version of photo 01.jpg here After a crossing of 43 kilometers during 37 minutes above the English Channel, the 25th of July 1909, Louis Blériot lands with difficulty close to Dover. Click on images below to see larger images Steve Bamford will insert a click-able smaller version of photo 03.jpg here. Clicking on that photo will bring up the full sized version of photo 03.jpg <03.jpg> <03.jpg> Steve Bamford will insert a click-able smaller version of photo 04.jpg here. Clicking on that photo will bring up the full sized version of photo 04.jpg <04.jpg> <04.jpg> This crossing is only the final point, the result of the long and keen, and often perilous work which Louis Blériot undertook. This man who was at the same time engineer, manufacturer and test pilot of his own inventions, made progress spectacularly a technology in which he obstinately believed.Steve Bamford will insert full sized version of photo 02.jpg here This model belongs to a collection launched by Hachette Collections and makes possible to build step by step the model of the Blériot XI, the legendary aircraft of the first crossing of the English Channel. This model has a final scale of 89 cm and a 76,5 cm length. Each week, I thus received a booklet with the new parts of the kit and after a 80 weeks waiting, I finally could finish the construction of the model ; -) . Click on images below to see larger images Steve Bamford will insert a click-able smaller version of photo 05.jpg here. Clicking on that photo will bring up the full sized version of photo 05.jpg <05.jpg> <05.jpg> Steve Bamford will insert a click-able smaller version of photo 06.jpg here. Clicking on that photo will bring up the full sized version of photo 06.jpg <06.jpg> <06.jpg> Photos and text © 2003 by "Lucien Bosonnet"