The Washington herald., 1919-06-16
Capt. Alcock and Lieut..
Brown, Latter American,
Land at Clifden, Ireland,
After Making Trans-At.
lantic Nonstop Air
Fight-Prize Of S50,-
600 Goes to Intrepid
Naugators Of Wickers-
Vimy Bombing Plane.

Nlmy bombing flane.
London, June 15.-The first sue
cessful nonstop flight acros. IN.
Atlantic ocean was completed this
morning by Capt. John AIcock. BRIT
ish RoRyal Air Service. and Lieut.
Arthur w. Brown. an American in
Vickers-Vimy bombing biplane.
Capt. Alcock landed at Clifden.
ireland, at $40 o'clock. having Gov
cred approximately 1880 miles. in a
little more than sixteen hours II.
hoped on at St Johns. Newfound-
land. at 4.l3 o'clock yesterday after
noon Greenwich time, or New YORK
time).
BY accomplishing the first trans
/ Atlantic airplane flight in history.
Capt Alcock and Lieut.. Brown win
the prize Of $4,000 offered by tn.
London Daily Mail
Make Bad Landing.
Following a rather dificult land
ing at Clifden. whe nthe planes
nose was buried far in the ground.
Alcock sent a message to the ROYAL
Aero Club here. asking for further
instructions. In his message Alcock
declared he had accomplished -.
flight in exactly sixteen hours and
twenty-seven minutes.
Both flyers showed evidence of
their hard and trying voyage but a
triumphant smile overspread Their
countenances. A huge crowd gath
cred in a few minutes to glimpse the
aviators who had performed the
: feat. in sttemptirG which Harry
Ea~ksr and Mackenzie Grieve bss
only recently barely eoref ID win
their lives.
mmeditely after landing. Capt.
Alcock said:
Wireless Out Of Order.
We were tired. being alone in the
fog and driZZle. Sometimes we found
ourselves flying upside down. having
lost all sense Of direction while en-
veloped in the heavy blanket Of foR.
0
er part of the flight. The wireless pro-
peller blew of soon after we started
from St Johns. Our receiver was
much jammed by strong signals not
intended for US"
Z The plane loomed out OF the clouds
of the Clifden wireless station unex-
pectedly and circled twice over the
Marconi aerials. looking for a good
landing place. Ultimately the pilot
glided down into a bog near the beach.
coming down with a bump that did
some slight damage TO the fuselsge
and underbody.
Lieut.. Brown Dated.
. The Marconi men ran 10 the assist
ancs of the aviators and found Lieut..
Brown dazed and Capt AIcock tenn
. Torarily desfened BY the force of the
landing. The two men were helped
out Of the machine and escorted 10
the wireless station. where they had
breakfast in the chief engineers
house after sending messages to Wick
erS Limited and to their families.
telling of their safe arrival.
The Vickers-vimy officer sent in
structions TO Alcock to remain az
I Citizen until repairs have been made
. to the damaged fuselaEe. then TO
start for London. On his arrival at
London. Alcock is to circle over the
city so as ia give everybody a chance
TO see the record-making machine
I in fun flight
I c. II knight. the vickers-vtnny
factory manager. said tonight:
Reach London Tomorrow.
"As soon as hear from Cant
Alcock what spare parts are needed 10
rorair the dana sc caused by the rough
: landing. several mechanics will starr
Immediately for Galway. I eNpecf
that Alcock will be able to show Lon
don his machine by Tuesday or
Wednesday.
We are ali tremendously happy and
proud over the accomplishment Of the
great feat by our machine We ex-
pected Alcock 10 get across IL any man
could 90 IT, because he had great e1-
perience in sicnt flying during the war
and knew his machine as well as he
knew himself"
A tremendous ovation awaits the
two successful flyers when they
arrive in London. The London
Daily Mail prize OF $4,000 will be
handed to them by some govern
ment official.
Probably the most interesting
thing today to Lieut.. Brown. nsvi-
gator of the big plane. is the fact
that he will soon marry Miss NJ. E.
Kennedy, daughter of Maj n Ken
lnedy. minister of munitions. Brown
land his fiance had a pact under
which they were TO be married i'm
mediately after the aviator finished
the big transatlantic flight.
Landed Ne arGalway.
The flight landing was made at
Clifden because OF the aviators' wish
that the time of the landing could not
be disputed.
The direct nonstop flight OF the
British flyers adds several hundred
miles to the record OF the NC-4 for
| the first leg of her trans-Atlantic
| flight. that from Newfoundland TO the
Azores.
Cifden, ireland. where Alcock made
his landing, is forty-three miles west
, northwest Of Galway. on an inlet OF
. the harbor of Ardbesr harbor. II Is
the terminus OF the Midland railway
Hines running from Galway.