Garros Crosses The Mediterranean In 7 Hours 53 Minutes

In October of 1911, Leon Morane and Raymond Saulnier founded their private company Aeroplanes Morane Saulnier in  in the Paris, France, in the farming area of  Puteaux, in which they began designing and building aircraft.

By the early 1913, Morane and Saulnier had established them selves with a solid reputation in aviation. On September 23, 1913, French pilot, Roland Garros pilots  non-stop across the Mediterranean in a Morane-Saulnier monoplane for a distance of 470 miles, from southern Cannes, France to Tunis, Tunisia.

This was 20 times further than Bleriot's historic crossing. The historic flight was a close one for Garros. As the aircraft that he was flying in carried 8 hours of fuel. However the crossing took 7 hours and 53 minutes. This was a very significant fight as no other aircraft had crossed over open water for such a duration.