In 1901, Mr. Louis Bleriot is taking his family for a ride in their motor car. Clacketa...clacketa..clacketa...Mr. Bleriot looks up into the sky to see what all the noise is. Crump!  He wrecks into a wagon full of pumpkins!  And what was that clacketa noise? The first airship Mr. Bleriot has ever seen. Now, he is hooked. He builds his own plane, and after several crashes, becomes the first man to fly across the English Channel! (AB)