Roland Garros
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This article deals with the aviator. For the tennis tournament, to see International France of Roland-Garros.
A recordman
Champion of France of Cycling in 1906, Roland Garros passed to the posterity to have succeeded, the September 23rd 1913, the first crossing of the the Mediterranean in the plane on the basis of Fréjus, 7 hours and 53 minutes. On board sound Morane-Saulnier H, in spite of an engine which undergoes two breakdowns, with broad of the Corsica and above the Sardinia. There remained to him 5 liters of gasoline when he was posed with Bizerte.It had before gained three records of altitude, fact in the United States, Mexico and Cuba a round of exhibition of more than six months, had flown to Spain, to Italy, to Belgium, to Holland, to Great Britain, to Tunisia, in Brazil where it was one of the initiators of the military aviation of this country, in Argentina, and Germany.
An inventor
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