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, Latin America, or vice versa. Such flights have been made by fixed-wing aircraft, airships, balloons and other aircraft.
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 a east-to-west Atlantic attempt. Hamel disappeared in May 1914 and the large monoplane partially built was never completed.
The U.S. Navy's NC-4, first aircraft to cross the Atlantic though in stages May 1919.
Alcock and Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic flight in June 1919. They took off from St John's, Newfoundland, and landed in Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.
Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe, also known as Professor T. S. C. Lowe, was an American Civil War aeronaut, scientist and inventor, mostly self-educated in the fields of chemistry, meteorology, and aeronautics, and the father of military aerial reconnaissance in the United States. By the late 1850s he was well known for his advanced theories in the meteorological sciences as well as his balloon building. Among his aspirations were plans for a transatlantic flight.
Thaddeus Lowe, c. 1890
Lowe's mammoth balloon the City of New York, later named Great Western, to be used in a transatlantic flight
Lowe's intended flight from Cincinnati shown in red. Actual flight in blue.
Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, c. 1865
