Why I find Alcock and Brown especially interesting is an analogy that I can draw from 1903 Wright Brothers flight to Alcock and Brown flight in 1919….and from the first significant space flights. Lothar Sieber was the first man to take off vertically with a rocket in 1945…and first man in space was Yuri Gagarin exactly 16 years later in 1961. Sieber; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isaWV45MkzM

If we then take the Rutan/Yaeger flight with Voyager 1986…there is 83 years in between the Wrights flight…and if we consider only Gagarin flight as a first real space flight..then the next outstanding space flight will take place in 2044…83 years after 1961.

Will that be beyond Mars…the time will tell.

What do you think ?

Yes Don I agree there was a bit of intented pun in it !

But if you had ask me a month a go to tell us about Alcock and Brown…I would not have known where to start.

No need for apologies…you filled many details here.

How come Nungesser and Coli became so famous?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/new-evidence-may-write-lindbergh-out-of-history-as-first-to-fly-atlantic-2131824.html

I don’t doubt a minute that Alcock and Brown did not cross the Atlantic in 1919. I just wonder how come I didn’t know about it.

That era planes seem pretty air worthy ( 1923 ); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FivQtHa2l-Q

Handley Page from London to Paris.