A transatlantic flight is the flight of an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe, Africa, South Asia, or the Middle East to North America, South America, or vice versa. Such flights have been
Concorde achieved transatlantic passenger crossings in record time.
Royal Air Force officers, Alcock and Brown, taking on mail prior to the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919
The Curtiss H-2 America was supposed to make a trans-atlantic flight attempt in 1914 but WW1 broke out. At one point the aircraft had three engines, one on the top wing, to build duration. The plane could not take off fully fueled with three engines.
Martin-Handasyde monoplane to have been used by Gustav Hamel in an east-to-west Atlantic attempt. Hamel disappeared in May 1914 and the large monoplane partially built was never completed.
Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviator and aviation pioneer who became one of the most celebrated figures of early flight.
Transatlantic flight
…statute miles (3,330 km), from Baldonnell near Dublin, Ireland, to Labrador, in 36½ hours. First crossing of the Atlantic by a woman On 17–18 June 1928, Amelia Earhart was the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air with pilot Wilmer Stultz and copilot/mechanic Louis Gordon. Notable flight (around the world…
Earhart beneath the nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electra, March 1937 in Oakland, California, before departing on her final round-the-world attempt prior to her disappearance
Amelia Earhart's birthplace
Amelia Earhart as a child
Amelia Earhart in evening clothes