First Crossing: The 1919 Trans-Atlantic Flight of Alcock and Brown

The first to cross the Atlantic non-stop wasn't Charles Lindbergh, but two long-forgotten British airmen. This is their story.

On June 14-15, 1919, Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown flew their flimsy wood and fabric modified Vickers Vimy bomber from St. Johns, Newfoundland to Cliveden, Ireland-eight years before Lindbergh's epic New York to Paris flight.

Alcock & Brown's story unfolds on two levels-an action/adventure tale that reads more like fiction blended with a la...