Alcock and Brown are first to fly across Atlantic Ocean nonstop

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Category
Transportation
Place
Global
Date
1919
Reference
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"The first nonstop flight across the Atlantic was made in a Vickers Vimy bomber with twin Rolls Royce engines by John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown." [Furtado: 1001 Days]

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Communications
1753
2020
One Earth
Inventions
-3800
2020
Transcultural