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I moved the below paragraph just added by User:66.31.242.252 here to talk, as I've been unable to find confirmation of this information. Could a source be mentioned on this please? Sorry if it's something I missed. -- Infrogmation 04:49, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Our family was on vacation and happened to be in Clifden at the time the replica Vimy was landing. The plane did a few circles around town and then landed on the golf course nearby, very close to the bog where the original plane crash-landed. There was a large parade through town, mostly consisting of period cars loaned from a museum for the occasion. Fosset and Rebholz rode in a period Cadillac limousine. There was a large part in a pub in town that night. We were actually able to talk and shake hands with Fosset and Rebholz, which you would never be able to do here in the US (They would be surrounded by security, no doubt). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jackavsfan (talk • contribs) 21:03, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
The Charles Lindbergh article says 81 flew the Atlantic before him; this article says 64.Pliny 17:23, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
The flight nearly ended in disaster several times owing to engine trouble, fog, snow and ice. It was only saved by Brown's continual climbing out on the wings to remove ice from the engine air intakes
This is a myth. There is no mention of this in Brown's logs, he was lame and it would have proved fatal.
- (Revision as of 04:27, 20 February 2007 by User:81.154.15.154 (contribs))
Flight and motion: the history and science of flying (2009, ISBN 978-0-7656-8100-3) says, on page 90: "Some accounts of the flight say that Brown climbed out on the wings to clear off the ice, but he never claimed to have done so." ← ZScarpia 16:59, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
I'm proposing merging John Alcock (RAF officer) and Arthur Whitten Brown into Alcock and Brown. I believe these articles are duplicating each other. I've proposed Alcock and Brown as the target atricle as I believe it has more deatail. -- Rehnn83 Talk 10:34, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
What do people think is the best way to mention the NC-4 flight (which preceeded Alcock & Brown and was largely popularly forgotten afterwards)? -- Infrogmation 17:58, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
A map of the route taken would be interesting. Drutt (talk) 01:14, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
(Disclosure: I know this author) A comprehensive new book entitled "Yesterday We Were In America" by Brendan Lynch, was just published by Haynes & Co. (April '09). Seems it should be included in the article. Can anyone suggest where it might suitably fit? Don't want to just plonk it in crassly.
Also, the Trivia ref. to one of the propellers is not true, according to Lynch. He notes, "one prop is at Brooklands, other is missing" (BrendanLynchBooks.com). --Cajmcmahon (talk) 17:17, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
I added a chunk based on a dubious website. But more and better should be added. 01:13, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
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The article alternates between 24 hour time and 12 hour time. We should pick one form or the other and stick with it. For example, in one sentence a time of "15:20" is given (which to anyone who uses a 12 hour system is 3:20 in the afternoon). However a few sentences later a time is given of "5:00pm." My suggestion is to use the 24 hour system as it is more globally recognized (yes?). Jersey John (talk) 17:52, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
https://www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/alcock-and-brown Khamba Tendal (talk) 18:36, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
I've excised the phrase 'crash landing'. The fact is that it would have been a perfect landing had the ground not been a morass, causing a nose-over. The cite given was for an Irish tourist website, which I would not expect to avoid sensationalist and inaccurate language.TheLongTone (talk) 13:23, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
Re. the preceding, I'd say the pilot, on coming to a stop, said, "Yeah, I think I'll give that landing a 9. On the Richter scale ..." Sorry.
I see this pernicious phenomenon so often on the Internet: When you blow up the location map, w/ the two little red dots, the dots are ABSENT in the blow-up. Because the blow-up has no English words on it, failing to identify any country or location, let alone those named in the main text, the blow-up is useless.
Fix.
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I found this in the article "[Alcot] was taken prisoner in Turkey after the engines on his Handley Page bomber failed over the Gulf of Xeros." But that is not what the reference says at all. The reference says "30 September 1917, his Handley-Page bomber was shot down over the sea and he and his crew were captured by Turkish forces." The engines did not "fail" which implies enemy action did not cause the plane to crash. The geographic place name "Xeros" does not appear in this reference. The original sentence linked Xeros to Gulf of Saros, without explanation of the name discrepancy. I consulted two geographic reference works from 1990, closer to this flight than now (2022). It may be that the United Kingdom called the Gulf of Saros by this name at that time, but one of my references is The Times Atlas of the World, published in 1990 in London, England, and it does have Xeros in the index as a small village in Cyprus, but calls the Gulf "Saros". For all of these reasons I changed the sentence to match the reference. Nick Beeson (talk) 14:00, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
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