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    gun was a problem. The French solved this problem when, in late 1914, Roland Garros attached a fixed machine gun to the front of his plane, but while Adolphe...
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    Archived from the original on March 7, 2016. Retrieved February 27, 2016. "Roland Garros (FRA) (15888)". October 10, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2023. Aerial Age...
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    annual French Open Grand Slam tennis tournament on the red clay of Roland Garros. The city hosted the Olympic Games in 1900 and 1924, and will host the...
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    addition of deflector plates to the back of propellers by French pilot Roland Garros and designer Raymond Saulnier in the Morane-Saulnier monoplane was the...
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    forced Garros to land behind enemy lines, and he and his secret weapon were captured by the Germans. Famously, the German High Command passed Garros' captured...
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    Air Sports International. Archived from the original on April 24, 2001. "Roland Garros Flies Over Mediterranean Sea". Dalje. September 23, 2008. Archived...
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    ammunition. In December 1914, French aviator Roland Garros asked Saulnier to install his synchronization gear on Garros' Morane-Saulnier Type L parasol monoplane...
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    Aircraft were already in use for scouting and on 1 April, the French pilot Roland Garros became the first to shoot down an enemy aircraft by using a machine-gun...
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    Lieutenant Roland Garros scored the first kill achieved by firing a machine gun through a tractor propeller of an enemy observation plane. Garros would score...
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    the Montparnasse neighborhood. 1928 29 July – Opening of the Stade Roland-Garros, built for the matches of the Davis Cup. George Gershwin composes An...
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  • government Historian, preserver of the Old Capitol dies at 97 Former Roland Garros 1977 Finalist Florenta Mihai Died Mostres de condol per la mort de Jordi...
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