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Vintage 1930s black and white photo of the big Vickers Vimy aeroplane - First non-stop flight across the Atlantic in 1919. #179000300
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The New Book of Knowledge Encyclopaedia 1930s / 1940s - Social history. The Vickers Vimy was a British heavy bomber aircraft by Vickers Limited. Developed during the latter stages of the First World War to equip the Royal Flying Corps, designed by Reginald Kirshaw `Rex` Pierson, British aviators John Alcock and Arthur Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic flight in June 1919. They flew a modified First World War Vickers Vimy bomber from St. John`s, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland.
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