Sunday, August 25, 2013
25 August 1913
Shortly after 5 AM on August 25, 1913 Harry Hawker and mechanic Harry Kauper departed Southampton in a Sopwith hydroaeroplane for a second attempt to complete the Daily Mail Circuit of Britain. The end of the day's flying found Hawker at Beadnell in Scotland, having covered 495 miles of the 1,540 mile course.
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