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Eugène Adrien Roland Georges Garros (French pronunciation: [ʁɔlɑ̃ ɡaʁos]; 6 October 1888 – 5 October 1918) was a French aviation pioneer and fighter pilot. Garros began a career in aviation in 1909 and performed many early feats before joining the French army and becoming one of the earliest fighter pilots during World War I .
Jun 10, 2017 · During World War I, he was a pioneer of air warfare, shooting down four enemy planes with the help of his own invention: wedge-shaped steel plates attached to the propeller blades, which allowed...
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Roland Garros’ inventing and trailblazing skills kicked in and he developed the first single-seater fighter plane equipped with an on-board machine gun that fired through the propeller. It was revolutionary.
Aug 29, 2019 · Roland Garros enjoyed an exciting life. An aviation pioneer in the early 1900’s, he taught himself how to fly a bamboo airplane despite crashing it at Versailles. He was a world-class athlete, a lawyer who wouldn’t learn Latin, a sports car salesman on the Champs-Elysée, an airshow pilot and racer.
Oct 5, 2023 · On this day, October 5, 1918, the famous French aviator Roland Garros, the first man to have flown over the Mediterranean Sea, was killed in the Ardennes after his plane had been shot down by the German army.
On April 19 French pilot Roland Garros was forced to land behind the German lines east of Ypres; he and his plane were captured, and the Germans recovered Garros’s revolutionary machine-gun–synchronizing device.
May 29, 2014 · “Tuesday last saw Roland Garros achieve his ambition of flying across the Mediterranean from France to Africa… Pre-war, he was one of the key pioneering aviators who established the viability...
