On this day in 1914: Norwegian Trygve Gran became the first to fly over the North Sea

Trygve Gran makes the first crossing of the North Sea by air. He flew from Cruden Bay in Aberdeenshire in Scotland, to Klep near Stavanger, Norway in his Bleriot monoplane.

Flight, at the time, recorded the crossing as: \"the longest oversea flight without sight of land which has so far been made,\" and added that: \"for some time Lieut. Gran bas been waiting at Cruden Bay for a favourable opportunity to make the trip.\"