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	John Alcock (aviator) Summary
		Alcock received a knighthood and a share of a £10,000 prize for his achievement, but died just six months later in a crash in France.
		Alcock was born in 1892 at Seymour, Old Trafford, England.
		Alcock was present at the Science Museum in London on 15 December 1919 when the recovered Vimy was presented to the nation.
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		Sir John William Alcock (November 5, 1892 – 18 December 1919) was a Captain in the Royal Air Force who, together with navigator Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, piloted the first successful non-stop transatlantic flight from St.
		Peter G. Cooksley, ‘Alcock, Sir John William (1892–1919)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 15 June 2006de:John Alcock
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	Charles Lindbergh
		Lindbergh is recognized in aviation for demonstrating and charting polar air-routes, high altitude flying techniques, and increasing aircraft flying range by decreasing fuel consumption.
		The first truly non-stop Transatlantic flight was achieved nearly eight years previously by two British fliers, John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown in their Vickers Vimy IV modified bomber on June 14/15th 1919.
		They flew from Lester's Field near St. Johns, Newfoundland to Clifden, Ireland (which, it must be noted, was a shorter flight than Lindbergh's) and in doing so won the Daily Mail prize of 10,000 pounds sterling which was presented to them by Winston Churchill.
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	John Alcock (aviator) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sir John William Alcock (1892-18 December 1919) was, as a Captain in the Royal Air Force together with Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, the pilot of the first successful non-stop transatlantic flight, from St.
		John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, Connemara, Ireland which took place on 14 June 1919 departing St Johns' at 1.45 p.m.
		Alcock was present at the Science Museum in London on 15 December 1919 when the recovered Vimy was presented to the nation.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/j/jo/john_alcock__aviator_.html (197 words)

	US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Aviator (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An aviator or an airman is a person who flies aircraft for pleasure or as a profession.
		In U.S. Federal Aviation Administration usage, an airman is the holder of an airman certificate issued by its Airmen Certification Branch.
		This term derives directly from the usage of the word "pilot" in aviation, where it is synonymous with "aviator".
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	Evenimente petrecute de-a lungul timpului 1900 - 1999
		• Mrs John B Dodd sarbatoreste ZIUA TATALUI.
		• Prima inmfruntare aeriana, cand Joseph Frantz si Louis Quenault intr-un aparat Voisin doboara un aviator german.
		• Primul zbor non-stop trans Atlantic este facut de britanicul John Alcock si americanul Arthur Whitten Brown, din Newfoundland pana in Ireland.
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	John Alcock (aviator) . Enpsychlopedia
		Sir John William Alcock (November 5, 1892 – 18 December 1919) was a Captain in the Royal Air Force who, together with navigator Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, piloted the first successful non-stop transatlantic flight from St.
		Peter G. Cooksley, ‘Alcock, Sir John William (1892–1919)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 15 June 2006de:John Alcock
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	enpsychlopedia.org /psypsych/John_Alcock_(aviator) (347 words)

	John Dancer, James Prescott Joule, A V Roe, Alcock and Brown, Ernest Rutherford and other Science and Discovery in ...
		John Benjamin Dancer's chief claim to fame is his invention of microphotography, though he was also an eminent optician and microscope maker.
		John Alcock & Arthur Brown made the very first trans-Atlantic flight in a Vickers Vimy Rolls aeroplane on June 14th and 15th in 1919 - Alcock had been the pilot and Brown was his navigator.
		Alcock was born in Old Trafford, though as a young boy his family moved home to 6 Kingswood Road in Fallowfield.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /celebs/scientists3.html (1677 words)

	Alcock and Brown
		Alcock and Brown’s aircraft was built mainly of wood with a fabric covering, by the Vickers factory in Weybridge, Surrey, England.
		Alcock kept his eyes glued to the altimeter as the plane descended from 9,800 ft. to 6,800 ft. With the reduced throttle settings, the cutout engines were running perceptibly quieter.
		Alcock was, “a terrible mess”, unconscious in the cabin.
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	John Alcock: Alcock and Brown
		November 1892, at Manchester, the son of John Alcock, a coachman, and Mary Alcock.
		Alcock was educated at the Parish School, St Anne’s on Sea, and at Manchester Central High School, which he left, aged sixteen, to take up an apprenticeship at The Empress Motor Works.
		Alcock’s supreme flying ability enabled the plane to reach Ireland where, thinking he saw a field, where he could land safely, he took the aircraft down into a bog.
	www.wardsbookofdays.com /6november.htm (480 words)

	Aviator at AllExperts
		An aviator is a person who flies aircraft for pleasure or as a profession.
		As Steve Fossett has shown with his 2002 solo flight around the globe in a helium balloon, then his nonstop solo jet circumnavigation that completed on March 3, 2005, there are still challenges to be flown and records to be broken.
		The Federal Aviation Administration estimates there are 609,737 active pilots as of December 31, 2005.
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	BEFORE
		The Vimy used by Alcock and Brown was the standard bomber that began its production in the war, but some alterations were made.
		Once alterations had been made Alcock and Brown's Vimy was put in crates and transported to Newfoundland (now part of Canada).
		Alcock and Brown took off on the afternoon of 14 June 1919.
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	The Southern Aviator (Site not responding. Last check: )
		John Alcock said that, shortly after landing a World War I-era Vickers Vimy bomber in Ireland on June 15, 1919.
		The airplane already has replicated the historic first flights from England to Australia, which also was made in 1919, and from London to Cape Town, South Africa, which was flown in 1920.
		The Vickers Vimy bomber was used by the British in World War I. Less than a year after that war ended, a Vimy made the first two of three famous flights, inspiring the development of long-range aviation in a world that still saw no practical purpose for manned flight.
	www.southern-aviator.com /editorial/articledetail.lasso?-token.key=11633&-token.src=index&-nothing (305 words)

	washingtonpost.com: With Derring-Do, Airplane Glue
		It was the latest in a series of flight and other tests, as well as many crashes, that goes back three years and has often seen the aircraft reduced to little more than a box of splinters.
		Hill, of Silver Spring, a retired expert in robotic planes at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, outside Laurel, is the jovial heart of the operation.
		In June 1919, two Englishmen, John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown, flew the same route, Newfoundland to Ireland, in a twin-engine converted World War I bomber, to become the first to cross the Atlantic nonstop.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A13958-2001Apr27?language=printer (1416 words)

	U.S. Repositories Listing - Smithsonian Institution
		He was active in aviation from 1911-1967, at the Chicago Flying Field 1912-1919, and the new Ashburn Field in Chicago, 1916 and member of the Early Birds.
		Aviation pioneer and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
		She invited the young aviators to her home which came to be called "The Hangar." She avidly collected photographs and autographs from the aviators.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/arch/arch_repos/GUIDE.PT7.html (16752 words)

	How prizes pushed progress - The New Space Race - MSNBC.com
		John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown crash-land their aircraft in a bog near Clifden, Ireland, on June 15, 1919, completing the first nonstop trans-Atlantic crossing and winning them a 10,000-pound prize.
		After 30 years of work, John Harrison develops a precision clock that could be used along with sun observations to satisfy the requirements in 1761, and is awarded the prize in 1773.
		The prize is won in 1919 by British Capt. John Alcock and Lt. Arthur Whitten Brown, flying a Vickers Vimy airplane for 16 hours from Newfoundland to Ireland.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5191763 (1282 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Model Builders' Transatlantic Dream Taking Off
		The plane is to be launched from a spit of land called Cape Spear, just outside St. John's, that is so far out in the Atlantic that whales and icebergs can be glimpsed from its shores.
		Hill, who was trained as a metallurgist, retired from Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory as an expert in the burgeoning field of unmanned robot aircraft.
		In June 1919, two British aviators, John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown, flew the same route in a converted World War I twin-engine bomber in the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A52591-2002Aug6?language=printer (906 words)

	History: People
		Information and photos focused on the birth of naval aviation, based on writings and photos of John H. Whitney, Curtiss' personal secretary and photographer.
		John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown were two British fliers and the first people to fly an aircraft non-stop across the Atlantic ocean.
		Pioneer of aviation, Italian pilot license n.1 and first military pilot in the world.
	www.aviatorlinks.com /History/People (352 words)

	Avation History
		Aviation in Europe became an instant success both with the people and the various European governments.
		This was the first occasion where aviation pioneers from all over the world were in one location where they could share ideas and experiences.
		The first aviators to fly nonstop across the Atlantic were two Englishmen, Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Brown.
	www.jrotc.org /avation_history.htm (4458 words)

	Amazon.ca: Alcock and Brown and the Boy in the Middle: Books: George Morgan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Alcock and Brown and the Boy in the Middle presents a piece of history: Canadiana from 1919.
		John Alcock and Arthur Brown, two British aviators, plan to launch their attempt from the field next door to the home of Ralphie Moyst in St. John's, Newfoundland.
		Ralphie's mother calls him her special child because he was born with polio and not expected to live.
	www.amazon.ca /Alcock-Brown-Middle-George-Morgan/dp/1895387205 (303 words)

	sh: Shell Man In Flight - Shell petrol coin collection of 'Man In Flight' 1969
		The true potential of the aeroplane war finally demonstrated in 1909 by French aviator Louis Bieriot On July 25, 1909, he flew his Type XI monoplane from Calais to Dauer, making the first crossing of the English Channel by a heavier-than-air machine and foreshadowing the ability of aircraft to travel anywhere regardless of boundaries.
		The ability of aircraft to cover long distances was shown in June 1919 when John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown achieved the first nonstop transatlantic flight in a Vickers Vimy biplane they covered the 1,890 miles from Newfoundland to Ireland in 16 hours 12 minutes.
		A major advance in civil aviation was the advent of the first jet airliner, the British de Havilland Comet 1.
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	siccature alcock (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Alcock is a surname, and may refer to:
		John Alcock (aviator), pioneer aviator, of Alcock and Brown
		John Alcock (bishop), English bishop of the fifteenth century
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	Wikinfo \| Aviator (Site not responding. Last check: )
		People largely known for their contributions to the history of aviation:
		People from other walks of life with aviation in their history:
		Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
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	Aeronautics - The Golden Age (1919-1939)
		In fact, aviation in the United States might have died completely except for two groups of men—the "barnstormers" and the Army aviators led by the outspoken General William "Billy" Mitchell.
		This was also a "shot in the arm" for the aviation industries, since the awarding of these airmail contracts created a demand for newer and larger aircraft.
		It was during the "golden years" that general aviation (all aviation other than commercial or government) came into being.
	www.allstar.fiu.edu /aero/wings4.htm (4441 words)

	VIMY (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Alcock and Brown's flight happened when a spirit for adventure and incredible skill combined to accomplish a truly heroic act.
		Piloted by renowned aviator Steve Fossett, and co-pilot and navigator, Mark Rebholz, the Vimy will re-create the historic first non-stop transatlantic flight by John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown in 1919.
		Following its departure from St. John's Airport, the Vimy will be visible in the east end of St. John's as it flies toward Signal Hill and the Narrows making its way due east out over the Atlantic Ocean.
	www.aamb.com.au /VIMY.htm (889 words)

	The World at War - Newfoundland & Labrador Timeline from 1919 to 1949
		John Alcock and Arthur W. Brown depart Lester’s Field near Saint John’s on the first nonstop transatlantic airplane flight.
		American aviators, Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, stop at Harbour Grace before departing on the transatlantic leg of their record breaking, 8 days and 14 hours, round the world flight.
		The National Convention defeats a motion by Smallwood to include confederation with Canada along with return to Responsible Government as it existed prior to 1934 or continuation of the Commission of Government as a choice to be present on the ballot for the national referendum.
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	IRISH STAMPS AND POSTCARDS (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dia Duit agus Fáilte(hello and welcome) to my web page.My name is John and I live in Ireland.I am now 48 years old.My hobbies include collecting Irish stamps and postcards.I am also interested in Irish phonecards and autographs,programmes and memorabalia connected with the Manchester United Football Club.
		I have been collecting Irish stamps since 1970.Irish stamps depict the history,culture,language,art,music,literature,sport,spiritualiity and aspirations of the Irish nation.The first Irish stamps were issued in 1922(on independence from Britain) and stamps issued since then show how Ireland has changed over the years.In a way they represent the SOUL of my race.
		John A Costello Statesman 1991 Statesmen of Ireland
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	Bolton Evening News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For Winston Neville Alcock, of Red Lane, Breightmet, is the nephew of the famous Capt John Alcock, who, with Lieutenant Arthur Whitten-Brown, performed the then amazing feat of flying from Newfoundland in Canada to County Galway in Ireland in 15 hours and 57 minutes.
		But, on June 14, 1919, Alcock and Whitten-Brown climbed into the cramped open cockpit of their two-engined, steel, plywood and canvas Vickers Vimy bomber prepared to set off from an improvised flying field in Newfoundland.
		Within minutes, the news was flashed to Fleet Street, to Europe then to the rest of the world: Alcock and Brown had broken the record, to claim the cash prize and become legends of the air.
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