John Alcock and Arthur Brown were British aviators who, in 1919, made the first non-stop transatlantic flight. [1] . They flew a modified First World War Vickers Vimy [2] bomber from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Clifden, County Galway, Ireland. [3] .

Jun 13, 2019 · Despite their graceless landing in a bog on June 15, 1919, Alcock and Brown were the first people ever to fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean. Nearly a decade before Charles...

Jun 17, 2016 · John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown leave St. John's, Newfoundland, in their Vickers Vimy, bound for the other side of the Atlantic, on June 14, 1919. The real story of the first nonstop transatlantic flight is one that’s surprisingly few people have heard.

Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, in a modified Vimy IV, made the first non-stop aerial crossing of the Atlantic. They took off from Lester's Field, near St. Johns, Newfoundland on June 14,1919, and landed June 15,1919, at Clifden in Ireland.

14–15 June 1919: Captain John William Alcock, D.S.C., and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, both of the Royal Air Force, crossed the Atlantic Ocean, non-stop, aboard their twin-engine Vickers Vimy F.B.27A Mk.IV biplane bomber.

Captain Sir John William Alcock KBE DSC (5 November 1892 – 19 December 1919) [1] was a British Royal Navy and later Royal Air Force officer who, with navigator Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, piloted the first non-stop transatlantic flight from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, Ireland in June 1919. He died in a flying accident in France ...

The competition was suspended with the outbreak of war in August 1914 but two aviators, Captain John Alcock DSO and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, had dreams of flying the Atlantic. Both had been prisoners of war during the conflict, Alcock in Turkey and Brown in Germany.

A century ago, over the night of 14–15 June 1919, Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown became the first people to fly non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean.

The year 1919 witnessed a groundbreaking event in aviation history: two intrepid aviators, John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown, became the first to fly non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean. This feat was a triumph of both technical prowess and human spirit, inspiring generations to come and forever pushing the boundaries of aviation.

Apr 12, 2019 · The message was from pilots John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown announcing to the world that, for the first time, an aircraft had flown non-stop across the Atlantic. The epic flight of Alcock and Brown in their converted Vickers Vimy bomber is now an established date of history but at the time their success was by no means expected.