Alcock
SIR JOHN, British aviator, born in Manchester, England, in 1892.
He is famous as having been the first air pilot to make a transatlantic crossing in a non-stop continuous flight. With ALCOHOL one companion, Lieutenant Arthur W. radical. Alcohol can unite with certain Brown, he left St. Johns, Newfoundland, at 4.28 p. m., June 14, 1919, in a Vickers-Vimy biplane and reached Clifden, Ireland, the following morning, 16 CAPTAIN SIR JOHN ALCOCK hours and 12 minutes from the time he started. The distance traveled was 1,960 miles. The journey was a terrible one through fog and snow and ice, the latter having at times to be chipped off the machine. For hours they saw neither moon nor stars. Their machine landed in a bog, nose down, but the aviators, though shaken up, were not injured.
They received from the London "Daily Mail" the prize of $50,000 that had been offered for the first who should make the flight and later were knighted by the king. Alcock was killed by his airplane crashing to earth while flying over Normandy, France, Dec. 20, 1919.