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.
John Alcock, partner on the first non-stop transaltlantic flight in June 1919.
That was Captain John Alcock and his copilot Lt. Arthur Brown, both ex-British Army, in a Vickers Vimy in June 1919
The history of flight traces back to even before the Wright Brothers. The first person to fly over the Atlantic Ocean was John Alcock.
Alcock and Brown flew from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, Ireland in June 1919, which was the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
John P. Alcock has written: 'Fauquier families, 1759-1799' -- subject(s): Genealogy, Registers
Two British airmen, John Alcock and Arthur Brown, flew a modified Vickers Vimy bomber across the Atlantic in June,1919 - 8 years before Lindbergh !