In July 1938, Douglas Corrigan flew from Brooklyn to Dublin in a plane denied transatlantic clearance and spent 57 years insisting it was an accident.
TaildraggerHow John Alcock and Arthur Brown flew a converted Vickers Vimy bomber across the Atlantic nonstop in 1919, eight years before Lindbergh.
TaildraggerHow Beryl Markham became the first person to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic east to west in 1936, into the wind.
TaildraggerOn August 17, 1978, Double Eagle II became the first balloon to cross the Atlantic, ending a century of failed attempts and 13 deaths.
TaildraggerRadio Hangar explores Beryl Markham, The Messenger, and the Night She Flew the Atlantic the Hard Way, East to West, Straight Into the Wind.
TaildraggerHow Alcock and Brown made the first nonstop transatlantic flight in 1919, eight years before Lindbergh reached Paris.
TaildraggerHow Beryl Markham became the first person to fly solo nonstop east-to-west across the Atlantic in 1936, into the wind.
TaildraggerHow Beryl Markham became the first person to fly the Atlantic solo east to west, from England to North America, in September 1936.
TaildraggerHow Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan flew a patched-up Curtiss Robin from Brooklyn to Ireland in 1938 and called it a navigation error.
TaildraggerHow John Alcock and Arthur Brown made the first nonstop transatlantic flight in 1919, crash-landing a converted bomber in an Irish bog.
TaildraggerHow Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan flew a $310 Curtiss Robin across the Atlantic in 1938 and blamed a backwards compass.
TaildraggerIn June 1919, Alcock and Brown flew the first nonstop transatlantic flight, eight years before Lindbergh.
TaildraggerHow Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan flew a patched-up Curtiss Robin from Brooklyn to Ireland in 1938 and blamed a compass.
TaildraggerHow Beryl Markham became the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo east-to-west, crash-landing in a Nova Scotia bog in 1936.
TaildraggerHow Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan flew a $310 Curtiss Robin from Brooklyn to Dublin in 1938 and called it an accident.
TaildraggerRadio Hangar explores The Spirit of St. Louis, Lindbergh's Wicker-Seat Gamble Across the Atlantic, and the Full-Scale Ryan Hanging in the EAA Museum at Oshkosh.
TaildraggerJohn Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown completed the first nonstop transatlantic flight on June 14–15, 1919 - eight years before Lindbergh - in an open-cockpit WWI bomber.
TaildraggerThe Curtiss NC-4 crossed the North Atlantic in May 1919 - eight years before Lindbergh - carrying six Navy men 1,500 miles by dead reckoning alone.
TaildraggerOn July 17, 1938, Douglas Corrigan flew from New York to Ireland on a flight plan filed for Los Angeles - and spent 57 years insisting it was a compass error.
TaildraggerRadio Hangar explores Amelia Earhart and the Friendship, the gold trimotor that crossed the Atlantic on June seventeenth, nineteen twenty-eight.
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