Washington DC. One of the well-known visitors at the time was Captain René Fonck, French Aviation Service. He arrived in the United States at the Port of...
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successful. On September 21, 1926, World War I French flying ace René Fonck's Sikorsky S-35 crashed on takeoff from Roosevelt Field in New York. U.S...
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naturalist author Clément Ader Jacqueline Auriol Louis Blériot Henri Farman René Fonck Roland Garros, first to cross the Mediterranean; French Open is named after...
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Frank Halford, English aircraft engine designer (died 1955) 27 March – René Fonck, French fighter ace (died 1953) 5 April – Larry Bell, American aircraft...
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control advocate, philanthropist and reformer (d. 1992) March 27 – René Fonck, French World War I flying ace (d. 1953) April 5 – Chesney Allen, British...
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is eating there. Capone escapes harm. September 21 – French war ace René Fonck and three others attempt to fly the Atlantic, in pursuit of the Orteig Prize...
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German-Ottoman force on the Sinai Peninsula. French flying ace Captain René Fonck gained his first confirmed victory, eventually becoming the highest-scoring...
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during World War I (killed in action) (b. 1897) French flying ace René Fonck shot down three German aircraft in ten seconds in a head-on attack, with...
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