点评:Knew about the tennis stadium but not about the man. Very accomplished early aviator who was born in St Denis on Reunion Island in 1888 and had a very interesting, if not short, life! After early motor vehicles he became interested in airplanes and joined the French Air Force in WW1. He is credited with helping streamline the Interrupter Gear which enabled a machine gun to fire through the propeller without shredding the blades!! He is also credited with the first shoot down of a German plane in 1915 using the gear. He scored several kills till he was shot down & captured, but his plane was confiscated by the Germans and the technology improved on by Fokker! He escaped from prison, returned to the air, but sadly was killed in October 1918 when shot down again a month before the wars end. A celebrated hero who is honoured to this day & remembered with a large statue in his birthplace
翻译:了解网球场,但不了解这个人。一位非常有成就的早期飞行员,1888 年出生于留尼汪岛的圣丹尼斯,他的一生非常有趣,甚至短暂!在早期的汽车之后,他对飞机产生了兴趣,并在第一次世界大战中加入了法国空军。他因帮助简化中断齿轮而受到赞誉,该齿轮使机枪能够通过螺旋桨射击而不会撕碎刀片! 1915 年,他还利用该装置首次击落了一架德国飞机。他取得了几次击杀,直到被击落并被俘虏,但他的飞机被德国人没收,技术被福克改进了!他越狱后重返天空,但不幸的是,他于 1918 年 10 月在战争结束前一个月再次被击落身亡。一位著名的英雄,至今仍受到人们的尊敬,并在他的出生地树立了一座巨大的雕像来纪念他