Sir John William Alcock was a Captain in the Royal Air Force who, together with navigator Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, piloted the first non-stop transatlantic flight
from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, Connemara, Ireland in 1919.
Sir John William Alcock was a Captain in the Royal Air Force who, together with navigator Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, piloted the first non-stop transatlantic flight from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, Connemara, Ireland in 1919.
He wasn't the first to fly non-stop across the Atlantic, the Englishmen John Alcock and Arthur Whitten-Brown achieved the feat in 1919.
No. John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown won the Daily Mail Prize for crossing the Atlantic in June 1919
The first non-stop transatlantic flight was by Capt. John Alcock and Lieut. Arthur Whitten Brown on June 15th 1919. In 1927 by Charles Lindberg.
AnswerCharles Lindbergh in May of 1927. At least 84 other men had made the flight, beginning with Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten-Brown of the Royal Air Force in 1919, but he was the first to do it solo.
John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown first flew the Atlantic Ocean non-stop in 1919. === === Charles Lindbergh was the first to fly the Atlantic Ocean non-stop, solo, in 1927.
Arthur Alcock Rambaut was born in 1859.
Arthur Alcock Rambaut died in 1923.
Arthur Whitten Brown was born in 1886.
That was Captain John Alcock and his copilot Lt. Arthur Brown, both ex-British Army, in a Vickers Vimy in June 1919
Arthur Stanley Brown died on 2002-07-06.
Alcock and Brown