Dover-Cologne Flight.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 18, 1913:
Hamel and American Passenger Travel at Nearly a Mile a Minute.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, April 17.— The airman, Gustav Hamel, made a record flight from England to Germany to-day. He flew with a passenger from Dover to Cologne without a stop, covering the 245 miles in 258 minutes, passing over five countries, and encountering five rainstorms.
    The flight was organized by The Standard and was made in an eighty horsepower Blériot monoplane, with a member of The Standard staff as a passenger.
    Shortly after leaving Dover the weather conditions became very unfavorable. It was intensely cold, and the aviators while crossing the Channel encountered a hailstorm and flew through it.
    The German authorities at Cologne received the airmen cordially. Hamel intends to attempt to return by air tomorrow.
    The Standard organized the flight in connection with the Imperial Air Fleet Committee, of which Lord Desborough is President, with the object of demonstrating the enormous value and importance of aeroplanes.