Modern Era · Europe · Technology
1919
Alcock and Brown fly the Atlantic
June 15, 1919
Two British aviators took off from Newfoundland in a modified Vickers Vimy bomber and, after sixteen hours of fog, ice, and a near-fatal spin, crashed into an Irish bog nose-first. They had flown the Atlantic nonstop, eight years before Lindbergh. Nobody made a fuss. The ocean had been crossed without engines failing.
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