monument commemorating Alcock and Brown first non stop transatlantic flight in June 1919

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On the 15th of June 1919, a Sunday morning, Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown landed their Vickers Atlantic Vimy in Connemara, close to the Marconi Transmitting Station on Derrigimlagh bog, a few miles beyond the town of Clifden, Co. Galway, Ireland. Their plane had completed the very first non-stop flight of 1,900 miles across the Atlantic Ocean from Newfoundland to Ireland. This monument was erected close to the landing site to mark their great achievement.

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Size: 5679px × 3786px
Location: ireland
Photo credit: © still light / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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