On November 21, 1914, three Avro 504 biplanes from the British Royal Naval Air Service took off from a location in France, flew over Lake Constance, and headed for the German Zeppelin base at Friedrichshafen, taking great care to avoid violating Swiss airspace. The objective was to destroy the base and any Zeppelins they could catch on the ground. They damaged the base, and thought, erroneously, that they had destroyed an airship on the ground. This was the most ambitious of the early air raids in World War I's opening months.

http://www.worldnavalships.com/forums/s ... php?t=9619

Does it really seem possible that airplanes have been making bombing raids for a full hundred years now? The aircraft they used had primitive engines that were essentially impossible to throttle back. It must have been like trying to fly a lawn mower with wings. I've read that modern pilots flying replicas of those early aircraft usually don't get out of sight of the airport, they're so dangerous to fly. Those pilots of a hundred years ago took those contraptions on raids deep into enemy territory that lasted for hours. They were certainly brave.

Oh yeah, that was a Saturday. I remember it well.

While that was going on 100 years ago, a helper in the kitchens of the Hotel Klein in New Brunswick, NJ, was bitten on the finger by a lobster he was trying to grill. He had to go to the hospital for more than a month and later won $210 + medical expenses in court.

TWO hundred tears ago today, in 1814, Brigadier Juan Mackenna, an Irish-born Chilean military officer and hero of the Chilean War of Independence, died. Indications are that he is STILL dead.

There is no way under the sun that I would fly in something like that.

WW1 is a massive thing here in Australia - when the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli Landing happens, it will be the biggest news story of the day here.

http://gallipolitour2015.com.au/?gclid= ... vAodDzYAxg