Today In History:  28 August  [1910]   --  New flight over 'open water' record

Armand Dufaux pilots a Dufaux 4 biplane 66 km (41 mi) from St. Gingolph to Geneva in Switzerlan at an altitude of around 150 m (500 ft), taking 56 minutes and 5 seconds for the crossing of Lake Geneva, the longest flight over "open water" at the time. The Dufaux 4 was an experimental aircraft built in Switzerland in 1909 and which was originally constructed as an unnamed biplane, the third aircraft constructed by the brothers Armand and Henri Dufaux.

PHOTO: The Dufaux 4 piloted by Armand Dufaux over Lake Geneva.

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Photo Attribution:  Public Domain  via Wikimedia.