John Alcock (RAF officer)
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Captain Sir John William Alcock was a British Royal Navy and later Royal Air Force officer who, with navigator Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, piloted the first non-stop transatlantic flight from St.
Captain John Alcock, portrait
Alcock (right) with Arthur Brown in 1919
Gravestone of Alcock in Southern Cemetery, Manchester
A sculpture of Alcock and Brown near the location of the (demolished) Vickers factory in Crayford, southeast London
John Alcock and Arthur Brown were British aviators who, in 1919, made the first non-stop transatlantic flight. They flew a modified First World War Vickers Vimy bomber from St. John's, Newfoundland, t
John Alcock (RAF officer)
…1892 – 19 December 1919) was a British Royal Navy and later Royal Air Force officer who, with navigator Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, piloted the first non-stop transatlantic flight from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, Ireland in June 1919. He died in a flying accident in France in December later that same year. John Alcock…
Alcock and Brown taking on mail
Statue of Alcock and Brown at London Heathrow Airport (now located at Brooklands Museum)an identical statue in Clifden too
Monument commemorating the flight, near the Lester's Field departure point in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Captain John Alcock stowing provisions aboard Vickers Vimy aircraft before trans-Atlantic flight 14 Jun 1919