Transatlantic flight
Videos
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.
Charles Lindbergh
Videos
Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator, military officer, and author. On May 20–21, 1927, he made the first nonstop flight from New York to Paris, a distance of 3,600 miles, flying alone f
Portrait c. 1927
"Daredevil Lindbergh" in a re-engined Standard J-1, c. 1925. The plane in this photo is often misidentified as a Curtiss "Jenny".
Lindbergh as a young 2nd Lt., March 1925
"Certificate of the Oath of Mail Messengers", executed by Lindbergh