A WWI Diary That Never Was

WWI Diary was to have brought you the whole of World War I as it was reported in the papers of the day, exactly 100 years later. For a year I blogged news leading up to the big war, thinking if there was any real interest regular readers would trickle in. They did not. Count: zero. So I stopped blogging the war news. For students of the time, 1914-1918 editions are available on the Web as thousands of individual articles via a Times service called Spiderbites.

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Curtiss Aeroboat For Army.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 13, 1912:
Hydro-aeroplane School to Have Combination of Airship and Motor Boat.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.— The War Department has ordered one of the new Curtiss aeroboats for the use of the hydro-aeroplane school here.
The new machine is a combination of an aeroplane and a speedy motor boat. The bottom planes of the machine rest directly across the gunwales of the hydros. It is said to be capable of developing a speed of fifty miles an hour on water and sixty miles an hour in the air.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Curtiss Aeroboat For Army.

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