Circuit de l'Est

The Circuit de l'Est was a six-stage air race organized by the newspaper Le Matin, [1] which took place in August 1910. General Foch, who had followed the race attentively, declared a few weeks later during the first aerial maneuvers in Picardy, to the Matin delegate, Robert de Beauplan: "All that, you see, is sport: but for the army, the air force, it's zero".[2]

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