John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown bronze plaque

Clifden, Ireland

This memorial honours the achievement of John Alcock and Arthur Whitten-Brown the first men to fly non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean. On the morning of the fifteenth day of June Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen they landed their aircraft five hundred yards beyond the cairn which can be seen one and a

half miles south of this point having left St John's, Newfoundland sixteen hours and twenty seven minutes before. The aircraft was a Vickers Vimy biplane powered by two Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII engines

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