Blériot - Le vainqueur de la traversée de la Manche #[nn]

From the "Plein Vol Collection" by Idées+, this French-language biographical comics volume celebrates Louis Blériot — "Le vainqueur de la traversée de la Manche" — capturing the engineer, inventor, and aviation pioneer in a single handsome edition. The cover sets the tone perfectly: Blériot himself stands confidently before a drafting table spread with technical plans, while his legendary monoplane is visible both in the hangar behind him and soaring through a blue sky in the distance. Covering chapters on his work as engineer and concepteur, the Blériot XI, the Channel crossing, and both Société Blériot and Société SPAD, this 2009 release is a richly structured tribute to one of aviation history's most daring figures.