Arriving too late for combat in World War I, the Vickers Vimy seemed destined for obscurity - until it became the first ...

Spirit of Brooklands, the replica of Alcock and Brown's First World War Vickers Vimy bomber, successfully re-enacted the originally planned finale to their pioneering flight on Monday, marking the ...

The original flight was the ultimate in ETOPS, made long before regulators defined what constitutes acceptable risk when crossing open water. The attempt will be every bit the challenge in extended ...

To mark 100 years since the first transatlantic flight, we look back at the story of the historic crossing through the eyes of the Flight archive "We have had a terrible journey. "The wonder is we are ...

When SA astronaut Andy Thomas was blasted into orbit on board the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1996 he carried a collection of Australian artefacts with him — including the pilot wings of two South ...

June 16, 2005 — -- Ask 10 friends who was first to fly across the Atlantic, and chances are the most common answer will be Charles Lindbergh. In fact, he was beaten by eight years. John Alcock ...

Adventure | What's ahead for the largest airplane in the world (circa 1919)? Crossing the Atlantic. North of San Francisco, flying low and slow above the rolling hills of Marin County, I looked down ...

NEW YORK, Nov. 20, 1916 (UP) - Ruth Law took her place as the premier woman aviator of the world to-day, when she broke the American record for cross-country flying. PLYMOUTH, England, May 31, 1919 ...

THE expedition which started from Cairo on February 6 should be memorable as the first use of long-distance aeroplane flight for scientific and geographical research. Thanks to the enterprise of the ...