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Originally Posted by
[cTx] mysticmerlin
I love you to Rip :-*
Incidentlly, I believe the first trans atlantic flight took off from NewFoundland and landed in a bog somewhere in West Ireland. Must look that up.
EDIT: First Non-Stop flight that is.
"First Non-Stop Transatlantic Flight
June 14 - June 15, 1919. Capt. John Al


and Lieut. Arthur Whitten Brown of the United Kingdom in Vickers Vimy bomber make first nonstop transatlantic flight, between islands, 1,960 nautical miles (3,630 km), from St. John's, Newfoundland (then an independent dominion and not yet part of Canada), to Clifden, Ireland " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_flight
Last edited by [XC] riptide; 10-06-2007 at 07:21 PM.
Reason: Find a link.
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