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Alcock & Brown Cross the Atlantic

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VIMY
Their aircraft was a Vickers Vimy — a twin-engine biplane built as a heavy bomber in World War I and converted for the long Atlantic crossing.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
CLIFDEN
The journey ended not on a runway but in a soft bog near Clifden, on the west coast of Ireland, where the Vimy's nose tipped forward on landing.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
WIRELESS
Brown used a wireless telegraph set during the flight, though heavy icing and turbulence made reliable communication close to impossible over open ocean.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
NEWFOUND
Alcock and Brown departed from St. John's, Newfoundland — the easternmost point of North America and the shortest practical jumping-off point for Europe.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Alcock & Brown's first nonstop transatlantic flight — free, large-print word search tracing their 16-hour crossing through fog, sleet, and open sky.

About On This Day

On June 14, 1919, John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown climbed into a modified Vickers Vimy bomber at St. John's, Newfoundland, and pointed its nose east across the Atlantic. Sixteen grinding hours later — through spinning fog banks, blinding sleet, and at least one terrifying spiral toward the ocean — they touched down in a bog near Clifden, Ireland, completing the first nonstop transatlantic crossing in history. They wore leather flying suits and relied on dead reckoning and a compass, coaxing a converted warplane across nearly 1,900 miles of open water with nothing but nerve and the pale light of dawn to guide them home.

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