169 Miles In Aeroboat.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 10, 1913:
Two Navy Officers Fly from Washington to Annapolis.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, May 9.— Lieut. John H. Towers and Ensign Godfrey De C. Chevalier flew from Washington to Annapolis to-day over an all-water course, a distance of 169 miles, in a Curtiss flying boat. The actual flying time was 3 hours and 5 minutes, and the average speed was nearly fifty miles an hour. An average altitude of 1,700 feet was maintained, and at no time did the aviators find it necessary to take to the water.
    The course was from the Washington Navy Yard, down the Potomac to its mouth, and then northward over Chesapeake Bay to Annapolis. The water boat left the Navy Yard at 7:40 o'clock A.M., and landed at the Naval Academy at 10:45 o'clock A.M.