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A Vickers Vimy IV bomber. It used two Rolls-Royce Eagle engines.

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Who made first non-stop flight in a single-seat aircraft from the US to France across the Atlantic Ocean?

Alcock and Brown flying a Vickers Vimy from NewFoundland to Ireland in 1919


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That was Captain John Alcock and his copilot Lt. Arthur Brown, both ex-British Army, in a Vickers Vimy in June 1919


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