Marcel-Georges Brindejonc des Moulinais (18 February 1892 – 18 August 1916) was a French aviator best known for long-distance flights, including crossing the Baltic Sea.
His summer vacations were spent mostly with his cousins at Pleurtuit Val, near where his parents owned Pontouraude.
In December 1910 he bought an aircraft from Alberto Santos-Dumont, and then enrolled at a flying school at Pau, gaining his pilot's license (No.
He then bought a Morane-Borel monoplane and started entering flying competitions, participating in exhibitions in Pau, Toulouse, Carcassonne, Perpignan, and Foix.
[2] This accident prevented him from taking part in the 1911 Daily Mail Circuit of Britain Air Race.
On the second day a Garros completed the four laps necessary to secure the main prize, while a three-lap race was held for all the remaining pilots, in which Brindejonc finished third.
On 8 August 1912, he made an unsuccessful attempt to win the Pommery cup with a flight from Paris to Berlin.
During his tour Paris–Bordeaux–Burgos–Madrid–Barcelona to Perpignan Lyon Paris from 24 March to 12 April 1913, weather conditions were harsh: "What a terrible trip!
The Pommery Cup was awarded twice a year (on April 30 and October 31) between 1909 and 1913 to the aviator who traveled the greatest distance in one day.
To cross the 300 km of the Baltic Sea, eight destroyers from the Russian navy were placed every eighteen miles between the island and the Swedish capital.
The ovation was outstanding Villacoublay, where he arrived a little after four o'clock in the afternoon, escorted by three aircraft flown by colleagues.
On 5 April he set off from Monaco for Genoa On 20 July 1913 he won the match against Mauritius and Edmond Audemars Guillaux to Juvisy-sur-Orge, for the Essorprize, a speed climbing competition organized by the newspaper L'Auto.
Qn 9 September, during the First Battle of the Marne, he reported three times that there was a gap between the German armies and Camp de Mailly.
Captain de Beauchamp, who would be killed on 10 November 1916, gave him this tribute: "Brindejonc is the man in the plume, the symbol light, living, the beauty, honor passing very high, over life.