The Blériot XXIII was a racing monoplane produced in 1911 by Blériot Aéronautique, a shoulder-wing monoplane with a fully covered square-section fuselage and extremely narrow chord wings, powered by a 75 kilowatt (100 horsepower) Gnome Omega 14-cylinder two-row air-cooled rotary engine. Two were built and both flew in the 1911 Gordon Bennett Trophy competition at Eastchurch, where Alfred Leblanc finished second in 73 minutes 40.2 seconds, just over two minutes behind the winner Charles Weymann, while Gustav Hamel crashed on the first lap and escaped with minor injuries. Leblanc had earlier set a world speed record of 125 kilometres per hour on 12 June 1911. Blériot shortened the wings to a span of around 5.2 metres after the aircraft proved slower than the Nieuport II.
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Blériot XXIII (1911) Racing monoplane with narrow-chord wings powered by a 100 hp (75 kW) Gnome.
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a racing monoplane produced in 1911
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Gnome Omega Omega 14-cylinder two-row air cooled rotary engine, 75 kW (100 hp)
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