The Farman HF.20 (top) appeared in 1913. From August 1914, the French, Belgian, British, Russian and Romanian armies used it. Because of its lack of power in aerial combat, the aircraft was transferred to the reconnaissance squadrons in 1915. The Morane-Saulnier type H monoplane (below) was known in 1912 as the aircraft of several speed and altitude records. In 1913, Roland Garros made the first non-stop crossing of the Mediterranean between Fréjus and Bizerte in Tunisia. At the beginning of the First World War, the military Morane-Saulnier Hs were armed with a machine gun at the front.