It’s 100 years since the first transatlantic flight
Alcock and Brown crash landed in County Galway. It’s commonplace today – but it’s exactly 100 years since the first transatlantic fight. Two British aviators, Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, landed in County Galway from Newfoundland. The pioneering airmen battled snowstorms, thick fog and rain in the open cockpit of their […]