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.

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Aviator Rises 16,368 Feet.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 4, 1913:
Perreyon Holds the Aeroplane Record for Pilot with a Passenger.
BUC, France, June 3.— The world's altitude record for an aeroplane carrying a pilot and a passenger was broken to-day by Edmond Perreyon, the French aviator, who rose to a height of 16,368 feet, or 3 1/10 miles.
Perreyon also holds the world's altitude record for an aeroplane carrying only a pilot, having risen to a height of 19,650 feet at Buc on March 13 this year.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Aviator Rises 16,368 Feet.

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