Adolphe Pégoud and Louis Bleriot Finish:none Aston is shown with wig

Aston is shown with wig with long brown hair

The simplified landscape shows a church and curate's house

Original: copperplate engraving

the Liberal Lord Russell and the Conservative Disraeli are amongst those offering to take on the task of clearing the Reform train from the tracks

Thomas Seckford

Adolphe Pégoud and Louis Bleriot Finish:none Aston is shown with wigAdolphe 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