A transatlantic flight is the flight of an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe, Africa, South Asia, or the Middle East to North America, Latin... 94 KB (10,442 words) - 14:50, 28 April 2024 |
Rolls-Royce Eagle (section Design and development) converted Vickers Vimy bomber on the transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown in June 1919. At the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, the Royal... 13 KB (1,538 words) - 11:53, 8 May 2024 |
2014. Scholefield p. 212 "Alcock, Brown and the first non-stop transatlantic flight". Science and Industry Museum. Photo of the memorial "No. 30437".... 11 KB (1,103 words) - 03:55, 9 February 2024 |
Aviation (redirect from Carriage of goods by air) During the 1920s and 1930s great progress was made in the field of aviation, including the first transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown in 1919, Charles... 39 KB (4,056 words) - 09:16, 8 May 2024 |
that year, a British Vickers Vimy piloted by Alcock and Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to Ireland. Also in 1919,... 22 KB (2,745 words) - 04:40, 29 February 2024 |
George E. A. Hallett (category Transatlantic flight) Wanamaker, but were prevented by the start of World War I. In 1919 the transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown set the record that they hoped to achieve... 5 KB (486 words) - 14:49, 1 April 2024 |
Kenneth More (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire) and Korda announced plans to feature him in two films based on true stories, one, The Alcock and Brown Story about the Transatlantic flight of Alcock... 44 KB (5,535 words) - 19:23, 15 April 2024 |
Clifden (category Transatlantic telecommunications) non-stop transatlantic flight by Alcock and Brown crashlanded in Derrygimlagh bog, close to Marconi's transatlantic wireless station. When Captain Alcock spotted... 22 KB (2,521 words) - 10:46, 29 April 2024 |
Tylers Green (section Sources and further reading) ashes of Arthur Whitten Brown, the navigator of the 1919 Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown, the first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic, are buried... 5 KB (450 words) - 22:31, 27 December 2023 |
RAF Wattisham (category Military units and formations established in 1939) the transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown, crewed by pilot Squadron Leader A. J. N. "Tony" Alcock and navigator Flight Lieutenant W. N. "Norman" Browne... 31 KB (2,449 words) - 19:16, 23 April 2024 |
Curtiss NC-4 (category Transatlantic flight) nonstop transatlantic flight, made by the Royal Air Force pilots John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown two weeks later. The transatlantic capability of the... 25 KB (3,172 words) - 17:23, 23 April 2024 |
Vickers Vimy (category Military aircraft of World War I) Bucks; the planned film about Alcock & Brown's transatlantic flight was never made, but the model was completed and paid for. Its fate remains a mystery... 35 KB (4,426 words) - 14:54, 8 February 2024 |
FGR.2 (XV424), and its backup (XV486), which was to re-enact the Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown for the 60th anniversary of the crossing. Hardy... 4 KB (367 words) - 15:12, 8 June 2022 |
ETOPS (redirect from Extended over water flight) three- and four-engine aircraft. The first heavier-than-air, non-stop transatlantic flight was made in 1919, by John Alcock and Arthur Brown, in a twin-engine... 29 KB (3,500 words) - 11:12, 29 April 2024 |
Ballyconneely (category Towns and villages in Connemara) carried out on the Dohulla Fishery. In 1919, the first transatlantic flight by Alcock and Brown ended two miles away in Derrygimla Bog, an unsuitable landing... 7 KB (615 words) - 16:38, 19 February 2024 |
Daily Mail aviation prizes (category Aviation history of the United Kingdom) cross-channel flight awarded to Louis Blériot in 1909 and the £10,000 given in 1919 to Alcock and Brown for the first non-stop transatlantic flight between... 7 KB (289 words) - 00:15, 27 June 2023 |
Avolon (category 2016 mergers and acquisitions) as the first transatlantic flight by Alcock and Brown, the evolution of Aer Lingus, the development of airports at Foynes, Shannon, and Dublin, the contributions... 29 KB (3,012 words) - 23:08, 13 March 2024 |
re-enactment of the NC-4 Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown, and wrote a booklet of the event. He edited the centennial and 110th anniversary editions of The... 4 KB (607 words) - 01:17, 6 May 2022 |
Reaching for the Skies (section VHS and book) flight of Alcock and Brown, the flight from Australia to England by Ross Macpherson Smith and Keith Macpherson Smith, the early Barnstormers and flying circuses... 12 KB (1,625 words) - 10:18, 2 March 2024 |
Albert Cushing Read (category Recipients of the Order of the Tower and Sword) transatlantic flight, a couple of weeks before Alcock and Brown's non-stop flight, and eight years before Charles Lindbergh's solo, non-stop flight.... 9 KB (866 words) - 12:39, 17 February 2024 |
Charles Lindbergh (category Transatlantic flight) Lindbergh was "following the track of Hawker and Greeve and also of Alcock and Brown on the first transatlantic flight eight years ago." Stars appeared... 235 KB (25,497 words) - 18:07, 8 May 2024 |
Those Magnificent Men, Mitchell and Nixon's comedy about the first ever non-stop Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown. The play, directed by Daniel... 29 KB (3,904 words) - 15:24, 19 February 2024 |
No. 56 Squadron RAF (category Military units and formations established in 1916) green and grey schemes. On 21 June 1979, Phantom FGR.2 XV424 from No. 56 (F) Squadron re-enacted the transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown to celebrate... 50 KB (5,282 words) - 12:30, 23 November 2023 |