Team Alcock and Brown, Vickers Vimy - The Great 1919 Transatlantic Air Race

It all happened a hundred years ago and because of their courage and daring the possibility of intercontinental air travel for the masses was born. 

Team Alcock and Brown, Vickers Vimy,

Saturday May 24 1919  Victoria Day Holiday

Morning Headlines:-

Fourth British Team Arrives at St. John's

Alcock and Brown Vickers Vimy Bomber Arrives

on SS Glendevon


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Teddy Brown having a drink of tea before the epic flight

The still crated Vimy arrives at the Martinsyde Pleasentville Field

The Cosh brothers Installing the Rolls Rice 12 Cylinder Eagle Engines

 Preparing for ferry flight from Pleasentville to Lester's field

Ferry flight landing at Lester's Field Evening of June 9th 1919

June 14 1919 Preparing for The Epic Flight

June 14 1919 Preparing to install the Replacement Magneto Pinion as Ike Looks On

June 14 1919 Preparing to Start-Up The Engines for the Up Hill Takeoff Run

Vimy Flight Log  for the Epic Flight with Radio contact with the Marconi Mount Pearl Wireless Station Circled.


Vimy Begins Her Takeoff Roll 13:58 hours NL Time June 14th 1919

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Team Raynham and Morgan, Martinsyde - The Great 1919 Transatlantic Air Race

Team Raynham and Morgan, Martinsyde - The Great 1919 Transatlantic Air Race

Friday April 11 1919

Morning Headlines:-

Second British Team to Enter the Race Raynham and Morgan Arrive in St. John's with their Martinsyde Aircraft.

The Martinsyde airplane had just arrived from England on the S.S. Sachem.

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May 18 1919 The Raymor's ground crew, were feverishly readying the big biplane for flight. The crowd was obviously hampering the operations and the crew were starting to show their frustration by physically pushing back the worst offenders.

"Half the town must be here to watch this spectacle; I bet Hawker and Grieve didn't have anything like this size of a crowd to contend with this morning, when they were gassing up the Sopwith."

The Americans were in the air, the Sopwith Atlantic with Hawker and Grieve had been spooked into a premature move by the Navy's NC's departure.

They were well into the takeoff run when suddenly, without warning the undercarriage collapsed after striking a small ridge just as it looked like she was finally ready to take to the air. The force on the collapsing gear pitched the ship downward and she plummeted into the the ground nose first.