{"id":25040469,"date":"2026-09-27T10:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T08:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/alcock-and-brown-first-non-stop-transatlantic-flight-vickers-vimy-1919\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T15:08:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T13:08:49","slug":"alcock-and-brown-first-non-stop-transatlantic-flight-vickers-vimy-1919","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/it\/alcock-and-brown-first-non-stop-transatlantic-flight-vickers-vimy-1919\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcock and Brown: The First Non-Stop Flight Across the Atlantic, 1919"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\n\n<style>\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid 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The pilot saw a flat green field near the Marconi wireless station at Clifden and put the aircraft down. The field was a bog. The wheels sank, the nose dug in, and the bomber tipped up onto its face. Neither man aboard was hurt.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown had just flown from Newfoundland to Ireland without stopping, the first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic by aeroplane. It took them 15 hours and 57 minutes, in an open cockpit, through fog, ice and snow. Charles Lindbergh&#39;s famous solo flight to Paris was still eight years in the future.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f4f5f7;border:1px solid #e2e7ee;padding:18px 22px;margin:8px 0 28px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:17px\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px;line-height:1.7\"><li><strong>Crew:<\/strong> Captain John Alcock (pilot) and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown (navigator)<\/li><li><strong>Aircraft:<\/strong> Modified <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/vickers-vimy\/\">Vickers Vimy<\/a> bomber, two 360 hp Rolls-Royce Eagle engines<\/li><li><strong>Fuel:<\/strong> Bomb racks replaced with extra tanks, 865 imperial gallons in total<\/li><li><strong>Departure:<\/strong> Lester&#39;s Field, St John&#39;s, Newfoundland, about 1:45 pm on 14 June 1919<\/li><li><strong>Arrival:<\/strong> Derrygimlagh bog near Clifden, County Galway, 8:40 am on 15 June 1919<\/li><li><strong>Flight:<\/strong> 1,890 miles in 15 hours 57 minutes, average about 115 mph<\/li><li><strong>Prize:<\/strong> Daily Mail prize of &pound;10,000, presented by Winston Churchill<\/li><li><strong>Honours:<\/strong> Both knighted by King George V a week later<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Race for the Daily Mail Prize<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The Daily Mail had offered &pound;10,000 for the first crossing of the Atlantic by aeroplane in less than 72 consecutive hours. After the war, several teams gathered in Newfoundland to try, among them the Sopwith pair Harry Hawker and Kenneth Mackenzie-Grieve, who came down in the ocean, and a Handley Page team under Admiral Mark Kerr.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Two weeks before Alcock and Brown set off, the US Navy flying boat NC-4 under Lieutenant Commander Albert Cushing Read completed the first flight across the Atlantic, but it took 23 days with six stops. <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/first-transatlantic-flight-nc-4-1919-not-lindbergh\/\">We told the NC-4 story here<\/a>. It did not qualify for the Mail&#39;s non-stop prize, which was still there to be won.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/john-alcock-stowing-provisions-vickers-vimy-14-june-1919.jpg\" alt=\"John Alcock stowing provisions aboard the Vickers Vimy\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Captain John Alcock stowing provisions aboard the Vickers Vimy at St John&#39;s, Newfoundland, on 14 June 1919, the day of departure. Wikimedia Commons, public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Vickers entered a converted Vimy, a twin-engined bomber built too late for the war. The bomb racks were replaced with fuel tanks holding 865 imperial gallons. Alcock, who had been a bomber pilot and a prisoner of war, would fly. Brown, an engineer who had also flown in the war and been a prisoner, would navigate with a sextant.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 6px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jg4FSnjqAYQ\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin:0 0 24px;font-style:italic\">The Institution of Engineering and Technology on the engineering behind Alcock and Brown&#39;s flight. Video: IET<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Sixteen Hours of Fog and Ice<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>They took off at about 1:45 pm on 14 June. Almost everything that could go wrong did. At 5:20 pm the wind-driven generator failed, taking the radio, the intercom and the heating with it. An exhaust pipe burst, and the noise made talking impossible. Thick fog hid the sky, so Brown could not take a sextant sighting until 12:15 am.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Twice Alcock lost control in cloud and the Vimy fell into a spiral dive. At 3 am they flew into a snowstorm that soaked them and iced the instruments. The carburettors iced up too. Legend has it that Brown climbed out onto the wings to clear the engines, though he never mentioned doing so himself.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;We have had a terrible journey. The wonder is that we are here at all. We scarcely saw the sun or the moon or the stars.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>John Alcock<\/strong> &mdash; after landing at Clifden, as quoted by HISTORY<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Down in the Bog<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Over Ireland, Alcock chose what looked like a perfect field. Derrygimlagh was a bog, and the landing tipped the Vimy onto its nose. Both men climbed out unhurt, having covered about 1,890 miles at an average of around 115 mph. The newspapers of the day printed slightly different figures in the excitement.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/new-york-times-16-june-1919-alcock-brown-front-page.png\" alt=\"New York Times front page 16 June 1919 on Alcock and Brown\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The New York Times of 16 June 1919. Its headline figures of 1,980 miles and 16 hours 12 minutes differ from the modern accepted 1,890 miles and 15 hours 57 minutes. Wikimedia Commons, public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Winston Churchill, then Secretary of State for Air, presented them with the &pound;10,000 prize. Alcock received a further 2,000 guineas from the State Express cigarette company and &pound;1,000 as the first Briton to fly the Atlantic. A week after landing, King George V knighted them both at Windsor Castle.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 6px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MrDs3cK9rZU\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin:0 0 24px;font-style:italic\">Arthur Whitten Brown describes the 1919 flight in his own words. Video: Peter Borenius<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Showing Lindbergh the Way<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Sir John Alcock did not live to enjoy his fame. On 18 December 1919 he was killed when he crashed near Rouen while delivering a new Vickers Viking amphibian to an air show in Paris. Sir Arthur Whitten Brown lived until 4 October 1948. The Vimy, rebuilt by Vickers, hangs in the Science Museum in London.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Eight years later, when <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/charles-lindbergh-33-5-hours-alone-over-the-atlantic\/\">Charles Lindbergh<\/a> landed in Paris after the first solo non-stop crossing, he did not forget who had gone first.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;Alcock and Brown showed me the way!&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Charles Lindbergh<\/strong> &mdash; on landing in Paris, 1927, as quoted on Wikipedia<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 6px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yk56nBcSalg\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin:0 0 24px;font-style:italic\">Lindybeige on the first transatlantic flight. Video: Lindybeige<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><em>Sources: Wikipedia (Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown), HISTORY, The New York Times (16 June 1919)<\/em><\/p>\n\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\n\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\n\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\n\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>Who made the first non-stop transatlantic flight?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The first non-stop transatlantic flight was made by John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown on 14 and 15 June 1919. They flew a modified Vickers Vimy from St John&amp;#39;s, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Ireland, in 15 hours 57 minutes, eight years before Charles Lindbergh&amp;#39;s solo flight.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What aircraft did Alcock and Brown fly?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Alcock and Brown flew a modified Vickers Vimy, a twin-engined First World War bomber powered by two 360 hp Rolls-Royce Eagle engines. Its bomb racks were replaced with extra fuel tanks carrying 865 imperial gallons. The rebuilt aircraft is displayed at the Science Museum in London.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Where did Alcock and Brown land?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Alcock and Brown landed at 8:40 am on 15 June 1919 in Derrygimlagh bog near Clifden, County Galway, Ireland, close to the Marconi wireless station. The ground looked like a field but was a bog; the Vimy tipped onto its nose, but neither man was hurt.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Was Alcock and Brown the first flight across the Atlantic?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Alcock and Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic flight. Two weeks earlier, the US Navy flying boat NC-4 had completed the first transatlantic crossing by air, but it took 23 days and made six stops, so it did not qualify for the Daily Mail&amp;#39;s non-stop prize.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What prize did Alcock and Brown win?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Alcock and Brown won the Daily Mail prize of 10,000 pounds for the first crossing of the Atlantic by aeroplane in less than 72 consecutive hours. It was presented by Winston Churchill, then Secretary of State for Air. Both men were knighted by King George V a week later.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What happened to John Alcock after the transatlantic flight?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Sir John Alcock was killed on 18 December 1919, only six months after the flight, when he crashed near Rouen while flying a new Vickers Viking amphibian to an air show in Paris. Arthur Whitten Brown lived until 4 October 1948.<\/div><\/details><\/div><\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Who made the first non-stop transatlantic flight?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"The first non-stop transatlantic flight was made by John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown on 14 and 15 June 1919. 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