Record Channel Flight.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 12, 1913:
French Airman, on Bremen-London Trip, Makes It in 20 Minutes.
    LONDON, May 11.— The French airman, Marcel C. Brindejonc des Moulinais, arrived at Hendon this afternoon after a flight from Bremen. The aviator left Bremen in a monoplane at 8:40 o'clock on Friday morning. He made a stop at Brussels and resumed his flight at 10:30 this morning. At Calais he took on a fresh supply of petrol, and crossed the Channel at great speed and at a high altitude.
    Passing Dover and Canterbury he struck the Thames near Gravesend, and followed the river to London. He flew over the city at a height of 3,000 feet, and arrived at Hendon at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
    Flying over London is unlawful, but the aviator apparently was ignorant of the law, and probably the offense will be overlooked. The people in the streets could plainly see the airship overhead. The passage across the Channel occupied twenty minutes, which is a new record.