The injustice of history: The first transatlantic flight was NOT Lindbergh's...
And why two British flight pioneers were simply forgotten.
100 Years Ago:
Two British pilots flew non-stop across the Atlantic in a double-decker for the very first time - long before pilot Charles Lindbergh. But their fame was denied them.
On 15 June 1919, a converted World War I bomber of the Vickers Vimy type landed in a bog near the town of Clifden in Ireland. When the twin-engined double-decker made of wood and fabric sank nose first into the mud, two uninjured men crawled out: the English pilot John Alcock, 26, and his navigator Arthur Brown, 32. Helpers rushed in and asked: "Where do you come from? Alcock replied: "From America. Yesterday we were in America."
The Irish thought first it was a joke. But really: Alcock and Brown had spent 16 hours and 28 minutes in the air, which was the record for the longest flight so far.
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