Adolphe Pégoud and Louis Bleriot Finish:none Valley of the Kings

Valley of the Kings

The classic design had an upright Daimler engine

Part of the oval surround found in the the ceiling of St George the Martyr

Original: copperplate engraving

Thomas Seckford

Adolphe Pégoud and Louis Bleriot Finish:none Valley of the KingsAdolphe 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