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Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown
First non-stop transatlantic flight (June 1919) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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] The Secretary of State for Air, Winston Churchill, presented them with the Daily Mail prize of £10,000 (more than £1 million in 2019) for the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by aeroplane in "less than 72 consecutive hours".[4][5] A small amount of mail was carried on the flight, making it the first transatlantic airmail flight. The two aviators were knighted by King George V at Windsor Castle a week later.
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