13 December 1913

In a flight that began on 13 December 1913 and ended on the 17th, Germans Hugo Kaulen, Alfred Schmitz and Bruno Kweft-Gevelsberg set a free-balloon distance record of 1,757 miles from Saxony to the Ural Mountains. They also took the endurance record at the same time with 87 hours in the air. The latter record stood until 1978.