1919 Atlantic crossing

Alcock and Brown aviation history first transatlantic flight Harry Hawker Mackenzie-Grieve pioneer aviators Sopwith Atlantic transatlantic flight Vickers Vimy

The Hangar May 19, 2026

Harry Hawker and Mackenzie-Grieve and the transatlantic attempt that ended in the North Atlantic on May nineteenth, nineteen nineteen

On May 19, 1919, Harry Hawker and Kenneth Mackenzie-Grieve ditched in the North Atlantic, failing to cross but proving it could be done.

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The Hangar May 18, 2026

Alcock and Brown and the sixteen hours that crossed the Atlantic for the very first time

Alcock and Brown completed the first nonstop transatlantic flight in June 1919, eight years before Lindbergh, in an open-cockpit biplane.

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