Frenchman Roland Garros made the first non-stop flight across the Mediterranean Sea

Roland Georges Garros was a French fighter pilot and aviation pioneer. Garros began his aviation career in 1909 and accomplished many early feats before joining the French army and becoming one of the earliest fighter pilots during World War I. In the history of aviation, Frenchman Roland Garros made the first non-stop flight across the Mediterranean Sea. Garros took off from Fréjus in the south of France on September 23, 1913, in a Morane-Saulnier monoplane.
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