were sold throughout Europe, and involved in many other aviation firsts: The first round trip over the Mediterranean in 1913, flown by Lieutenants Destrem and de l'Escaille of the Marine Nationale from St. Rafael to Ajaccio in Corsica and back. A world altitude record of 20,079 ft (6,120 m) by Georges Legagneux, also at St. Raphael. An epic seven-week flight from Villacoublay to Cairo by pilot Marc Bonnier and a passenger. Some of the very first tests of machine-gun mounting on aircraft. The first ever successful loop, performed by Lieutenant Pyotr Nesterov of the Imperial Russian Air Service on 20 August 1913. In January 1914 Gustave Delage joined the company and by converting the type 10 monoplane into a sesquiplane ("one and a half wing" aircraft with a full chord upper wing and a single-spar, half-chord lower wing), began to develop the highly successful for which the Nieuport company would be famous for during World War I. Notes References Kenneth Munson, Pioneer Aircraft 1903-14 Phil Jarrett (Editor) Pioneer Aircraft; Early Aviation before 1914 1875 births 1911 deaths Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in France French aerospace engineers French aviation record holders Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1911 French people in French Algeria