100 years ago tomorrow morning. John Alcock and Arthur Brown of the RAF took off from Lester's Field here in St. John's in their modified WW1 Vickers Vimy bomber and headed east. Some 16 hours later they crash landed in a bog just outside Clifden Ireland having just completed the first transatlantic flight in an airplane.
Charles Lindburgh made a more famous crossing some years later , but Alcock and Brown were first.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/alcock-brown-100-year-anniversary-1.5099625NRMinister@gov.nl.ca
