Vickers Vimy WW1 Bomber ..... First across the Atlantic.
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Uploaded by mollyisagooddog on Mar 25, 2009
Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, in a modified Vimy IV, made the first non-stop aerial crossing of the Atlantic. They took off from Lester's Field, near St. Johns, Newfoundland on June 14,1919, and landed June 15,1919, at Clifden in Ireland. The time for the crossing was sixteen hours, twenty-seven minutes.
The news of the adventure spead like wildfire and the two men were received as heroes in London. For their accomplishment, they were presented with Lord Northcliffe's Daily Mail prize of £10,000 by Winston Churchill, who was then Britain's Secretary of State. A few days later, both men were knighted at Buckingham Palace by King George V, for recognition of their pioneering achievment.
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@sudaev well you are just a biggot who cant accept that their country is filled with propaganda and lies :)
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@McLarenMercedes Alcock didn't have a co-pilot either - Brown was the navigator.! (but also assisted crawling out onto wings to clear ice and clear air intakes etc,) They didn't have to stay awake as long though because even though about 8 years earlier they flew the Atlantic in less than half the time it took Lindbergh.
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@tzski1 - WTF are you on about? I bet you anything that most Brits don't know who these guys are, either.
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I love the Vimy. It just missed WW1, but I'd sure love to see Wingnut Wings come out with a 1/32nd scale model.
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@McLarenMercedes I understand that. I heard that he hit the water once. That must've woken him up. XD
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Lindbergh got credit for the first SOLO crossing of the Atlantic in 1927.
Alcock and Brown crossed the Atlantic non-stop with the Vickers Vimy in 1919. That is a fact.
Sadly most people don't realize that a solo flight in such slow planes was quite the feat. Lindbergh's flight took 33hours and 30 minutes. Yes, that meant Lindbergh had to be awake and flying ALL that time. No co-pilot.
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there's one in Adelaide South Australia
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It's like Handley Page father
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what is the name of the music?
OrCkHaNtheGrEaT 3 months ago
@OrCkHaNtheGrEaT It is Ludwig Van Beethoven: Romance For Violin And Orchestra No. 2
mollyisagooddog 3 months ago
Objection to the description. They crash-landed, not "Landed" That's why Lindberg got most of the credit for it.
B1Studios 6 months ago
@B1Studios Agreed ....... they crash landed.
mollyisagooddog 6 months ago
@mollyisagooddog Yeah, in a bog in Ireland, right? But It still was Trans-Atlantic.
B1Studios 6 months ago
@B1Studios Yeah, in a peat bog. Brave men. Thanks for the comments.
mollyisagooddog 6 months ago