Linbergh Did Not Cross The Atlantic First

Captain John Alcock, an English pilot, and his navigator and flying partner, Arthur Whitten Brown flew across the Atlantic 10 years earlier and they used a shorter route.

On June 15, 1919, Alcock and Brown were the first people ever to fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean. They became heroes.

“We looped the loop,” Alcock recalled. “We did some very comic stunts, for I had no sense of the horizon.”

Blinded by the weather and uncertain of their exact location, the men flew and flew. Fueled by sandwiches, coffee and whisky, they passed the time by singing and worrying about whether the punishing weather would destroy their fuel tanks.
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