Øyvind Ellingsen, the chairman of Warbirds of Norway, recently took his new Blériot XI-2 replica for a short hop. The aircraft, equipped with a 110 hp Le Rhone rotary engine, was built by Craftlab workshop in Austria and is a replica of “Nordsjøen”, the aircraft used by Trygve Gran, the first person to fly across the North Sea in 1914.
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