Adolphe Pégoud and Louis Bleriot Product:Greetings card behind them figures sit around

behind them figures sit around a table carrying out paper work

the home of Njall

6th Earl of Leicester

Moving the centre portion of one of the beds or couches from the tomb

25th July 1964

Adolphe Pégoud and Louis Bleriot Product:Greetings card behind them figures sit aroundAdolphe Pgoud and Louis Bleriot, French aviators, Brooklands, Surrey, 1913. Adolphe Clestin Pgoud (1889 1915) was a test pilot for Bleriot (1872 1936), the French pilot and aircraft designer who was the first to fly across the Enlgish Channel. Pgoud famously looped the loop on 21 September 1913. It was publicised as the first successful completion of the manoeuvre but it later transpired that Pyotr Nesterov, a Russian army pilot, had achieved the feat