Completes Longest Flight On Record.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 3, 1913:
Brindejonc des Moulinais Arrives in Paris After Flying to St. Petersburg and Back.
CROWD OF 5,000 GREETS HIM
Carried Shoulder-High Around Aerodrome — Progress Through Paris Like Triumphal Procession.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    PARIS, July 2.— Brindejonc des Moulinais, the French airman, landed at 4:20 o'clock this afternoon at the Villacoublay aerodrome, near Versailles, thus terminating his wonderful flight of about 3,100 miles from Paris to St. Petersburg and back and establishing a record for the longest aerial voyage so far accomplished.
    The following is a diary of the flight: June 1, Paris to Warsaw, 875 miles; June 15, Warsaw to Dvinsk, 344 miles; June 16, Dvinsk to St. Petersburg, 281 miles; June 23, St. Petersburg to Reval, 219 miles; June 25, Reval to Stockholm, 250 miles; June 29, Stockholm to Copenhagen, 344 miles; July 1, Copenhagen to The Hague, 449 miles; July 2, The Hague to Paris, 240 miles.
    M. Brindejonc was escorted on the last stage to-day by five French airmen. Five thousand persons were awaiting him at Villacoublay. As soon as he landed a number of admirers embraced him and girls presented bouquets to him. Then the crowd carried him shoulder-high around the aerodrome.
    Every one clamored for the airman's autograph, and the crowd pressed so thickly around him that his father was unable to approach him. Finally the old man fought his way through, and father and son embraced.
    M. Brindejonc is not yet 21 years old. He will begin his military service in October. He is a modest, almost shy young man, but his magnificent flight shows that he has nerves of steel. He said to-day that his most anxious time was during the flight of more than 100 miles over the Baltic. Several times he saw what he took to be clouds appearing and vanishing in an inexplicable manner. This so played on his nerves that for a time he thought he must be going mad. Eventually he was relieved to find that what he imagined to be clouds was in reality a group of islands near Stockholm seen through the dancing rays of the sun.
    The airman's progress along the boulevards on his way to a reception at the Matin office was like that of a victorious General returning from a campaign. The police were powerless to control the demonstrative but good-natured crowds.
    "This Frenchman is a hero," the Kaiser said when he was told that on the first day of his great flight M. Brindejonc had covered 875 miles in eight hours, an average of 110 miles an hour.
    Between Waune, Westphalia, and Berlin M. Brindejonc traveled at a speed of 140 miles an hour.