Maurice Farman

"On March 7, 1911, three years to the day after the creation of the prize, Eugène Renaux (a Peugeot dealer) and his passenger Albert Senouque tried their luck on a military-type “Maurice Farman” equipped with a robust 50 HP Renault engine. Departure from Bue, a stopover of about twenty minutes in Nevers, navigation by compass, the spires of the Clermont-Ferrand cathedral, the summit of the puy de Dôme. A trouble-free flight. The feat is timed at five hours ten minutes forty-six seconds."

"And its ideas on military aviation, as the battles intensified, will have prevailed, despite the reservations and inertia that the two brothers will have had to overcome. In 1915, twenty squadrons of Maurice Farman and Voisin are specifically tasked with going to bomb enemy lines. In 1918, it will be recognized that the bombing squadrons — there will be thirty-two by the end of the war — will have carried out numerous attacks, destroyed encampments, factories, marshaling yards, canals, ports. And the airplane, definitively, will supplant the airship. Michelin will have won “its” war[17](private://read/01jkqdqdgs7t399cyecbezrhj0/#ftn_fn17)."