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    Eugène Adrien Roland Georges Garros


    On 1 April 1915, French pilot, Eugène Adrien Roland Georges Garros, a reconnaissance pilot with the Escadrille MS26, scored the first aerial victory by firing through the propeller of his plane; the target is believed to be a German Albatros B.II. In December of 1914, Garros visited the Morane-Saulnier Works, which was experimenting on the use of metal deflector wedges mounted to propellers. In March of 1915, Garros had a workable version of the deflector plates mounted to his Morane-Saulnier Type L airplane. Before being downed behind enemy lines a few weeks later on the 18th of April, he scored two more victories. Garros had another claim to fame. In 1913, he flew the first non-stop flight across the Mediterranean Sea from Fréjus in the south of France to Bizerte in Tunisia.


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    References
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Garros_(aviator)
    http://www.greatwar.co.uk/battles/se...s-captured.htm

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    What an April Fool's joke THAT was on the Hun!

    Garros was quite a guy. After being shot down & captured, he spent over 2 years as a POW before escaping & returning to the skies. He managed to shoot down 2 more (but only 1 was confirmed) before he was shot down & killed.

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    Nice one Rob. Best April Fool joke I have come across.
    Rob.
    "Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flying Officer Kyte View Post
    Nice one Rob. Best April Fool joke I have come across.
    Rob.
    It's funny, I'm quite familiar w/ the Garros story. It was one of the first to catch my fancy when I was reading up on WWI air combat history for material to go in the "Brief History" I compiled when I first started playing a couple years ago. But I never realized it happened on April Fools Day!



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