Popular Mechanics, January 1914, p. 8
POMMERY PRIZE REAWARDED BY FRENCH AERIAL LEAGUE
The Pommery prize for the longest aeroplane flight between sunrise and sunset has now been awarded to Brindejonc-des-Moulinais, the French airman whose feat in flying from Paris to Warsaw, a distance of 933 miles, was described in the August, 1913, issue of Popular Mechanics Magazine. Some time later another French airman, Guillaux, started from Biarritz and claimed to have landed in Brockel, a small village near Bremen, thus surpassing Brindejonc's record by a few miles. He produced a certificate, apparently signed by the burgomaster of that place, on the strength of which he was awarded the Pommery prize. It was soon discovered, however, that he did not land in Brockel, but Brackel, a village some 60 miles nearer his starting place, and that the "a" had been changed to and "o" in his certificate. The aeronautical commisssion of the French Aerial League not only canceled the award of the Pommery prize to Guillaux, but suspended his pilot's certificate for 10 years, and made the award to Brindejonc. The incident created a great sensation in Europe.