Monday, September 23, 2013
23 September 1913
On September 23, 1913, French pilot Roland Garros flew non-stop across the Mediterranean in a Morane-Saulnier monoplane powered by an 80 hp Gnome rotary engine, a distance of 460 miles from St. Raphael, France to Bizerta, Tunisia. This was 20 times further than Bleriot's historic crossing.
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