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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.

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