John Alcock, Arthur Brown, and the Vickers Vimy That Crossed the Atlantic Eight Years Before Lindbergh
The first nonstop transatlantic flight was completed by John Alcock and Arthur Brown on June 14, 1919 - eight years before Lindbergh.
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Wrong Way Corrigan, the Dublin Landing Nobody Was Supposed to Believe, and the Transatlantic Flight Filed as a Trip to California
On July 17, 1938, Douglas Corrigan filed a flight plan to Los Angeles, flew east for 28 hours, and landed in Dublin - then claimed he got turned around.
TaildraggerThe Lockheed Constellation, Howard Hughes, and the Triple-Tail Queen That Made Transatlantic Flight a Routine Act
The Lockheed Constellation cut New York-to-Paris travel to 13 hours in 1946, redefining transatlantic flight through pressurization, range, and a design born from Howard Hughes's audacious 1939 spec.
TaildraggerDouglas Corrigan, the Curtiss Robin He Bought for Three Hundred Twenty-Five Dollars, and the Wrong-Way Atlantic Crossing That Nobody Could Ever Prove Was on Purpose
On July 17, 1938, Douglas Corrigan departed Brooklyn bound for Los Angeles and landed in Dublin, Ireland - the wrong-way Atlantic crossing nobody could prove was intentional.
TaildraggerJohn Alcock, Arthur Brown, the Vickers Vimy, and the Sixteen Hours Over the North Atlantic That History Somehow Forgot
John Alcock and Arthur Brown completed the first nonstop transatlantic flight in June 1919 - eight years before Lindbergh - in an open-cockpit biplane through ice and zero-visibility cloud.
TaildraggerBritish Airways Boeing Seven Seventy-Seven Emergency Descent Over the Irish Sea
A British Airways Boeing 777 declared an emergency and returned to Heathrow on October 5, 2026, after a rapid descent over the Irish Sea en route to Chicago O'Hare.
TowerCharles Lindbergh, the Curtiss JN-4 Jenny, and the Barnstorming Apprenticeship That Built the Pilot Who Crossed the Atlantic
Before Paris and the ticker-tape parade, Charles Lindbergh spent three years barnstorming Midwest pastures - the unglamorous apprenticeship that built the pilot who crossed the Atlantic.
TaildraggerWrong Way Corrigan, the Beat-Up Curtiss Robin, and the Twenty-Eight Hour Flight Nobody Could Officially Explain
On July 17, 1938, Douglas Corrigan flew 28 hours and 13 minutes from Brooklyn to Dublin - officially claiming he meant to go to Los Angeles the whole time.
TaildraggerWrong Way Corrigan, the Curtiss Robin, and the Transatlantic Flight Nobody Was Supposed to Know About
On July 17, 1938, Douglas Corrigan flew from Brooklyn to Dublin after filing a flight plan for Los Angeles - then blamed a faulty compass for the detour.
TaildraggerAlcock and Brown, the Vickers Vimy, and the First Nonstop Crossing of the Atlantic Eight Years Before Lindbergh Got the Glory
John Alcock and Arthur Brown flew nonstop across the Atlantic in 1919, eight years before Lindbergh, in an open cockpit with primitive instruments.
TaildraggerWrong Way Corrigan, the Curtiss Robin Nobody Believed Could Cross an Ocean, and the Twenty-Eight Hour Mystery That Never Got an Honest Answer
In July 1938, Douglas Corrigan flew from Brooklyn to Dublin in a leaking, fuel-soaked Curtiss Robin - then claimed he misread his compass.
TaildraggerWrong Way Corrigan, the Curtiss Robin He Nursed Across the Atlantic, and the Navigation Error Nobody in America Ever Believed
On July 18, 1938, Douglas Corrigan landed in Ireland claiming he'd followed the wrong end of his compass - a story no one believed and everyone loved.
TaildraggerCharles Lindbergh, the Spirit of St. Louis, and the Thirty-Three Hours That Rewrote What Aviation Could Be
On May 20, 1927, Charles Lindbergh flew 3,600 miles from New York to Paris alone in 33 hours - a crossing that permanently transformed aviation.
TaildraggerThe Curtiss NC-4, the First Transatlantic Flight, and the Flying Boat That History Left at Pensacola
The Curtiss NC-4 completed the first transatlantic flight on May 27, 1919 - eight years before Lindbergh - yet its crew remains largely forgotten.
TaildraggerDouglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan, the Curtiss Robin, and the Atlantic Crossing Nobody Was Supposed to Know About
How Douglas Corrigan spent 11 years chasing government approval to fly the Atlantic, then crossed it anyway on July 17, 1938 - and spent the rest of his life denying it.
TaildraggerWrong Way Corrigan, the Curtiss Robin, and the Trans-Atlantic Flight That Was Definitely an Accident
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.
TaildraggerAlcock and Brown, the Vickers Vimy, and the First Nonstop Flight Across the Atlantic in Nineteen Nineteen
How John Alcock and Arthur Brown flew a converted Vickers Vimy bomber across the Atlantic nonstop in 1919, eight years before Lindbergh.
TaildraggerBeryl Markham, The Messenger, and the Night She Flew the Atlantic the Hard Way From East to West in Nineteen Thirty-Six
How Beryl Markham became the first person to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic east to west in 1936, into the wind.
TaildraggerDouble Eagle Two, the Helium Balloon That Crossed the Atlantic on This Day in Nineteen Seventy-Eight After a Century of Men Died Trying
On August 17, 1978, Double Eagle II became the first balloon to cross the Atlantic, ending a century of failed attempts and 13 deaths.
TaildraggerBeryl Markham, The Messenger, and the Night She Flew the Atlantic the Hard Way, East to West, Straight Into the Wind
Radio Hangar explores Beryl Markham, The Messenger, and the Night She Flew the Atlantic the Hard Way, East to West, Straight Into the Wind.
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