__1919: __John Alcock and Arthur Brown land their Vickers Vimy airplane in a bog in Clifden, Ireland, marking the end of the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic. It's a good bet to win a drink at ...

ADELAIDE’S aviation museum wants a historic World War I bomber moved from the airport to it, to boost visitor numbers. But first it’ll need a $2m expansion. The century-old plane has been on display ...

When SA astronaut Andy Thomas was blasted into orbit on board the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1996 he carried a collection of Australian artefacts with him — including the pilot wings of two South ...

Ross and Keith Smith in 1921, two years after their epic flight. State Library of South Australia On December 10, 1919, brothers Ross and Keith Smith landed their Vickers Vimy bomber in Port Darwin to ...

Spirit of Brooklands, the replica of Alcock and Brown's First World War Vickers Vimy bomber, successfully re-enacted the originally planned finale to their pioneering flight on Monday, marking the ...

It may have resembled a “coffin with wings”, but the Vickers Vimy biplane sitting at Adelaide Airport propelled its mostly SA crew to fame after one of the most daring and significant flights in ...

In a corner of Hurn Airport, near Britain’s south coast, stand six black-painted hangars belonging to Vickers Ltd. Inside are planes abuilding that pose the biggest threat to U.S. domination of the ...

A pair of 20.3-liter Rolls-Royce engines developing 350 bhp were the main tools used by British aviators John Alcock and Arthur Brown to cross the Atlantic in their World War I Vickers Vimy bomber ...

Adventure | What's ahead for the largest airplane in the world (circa 1919)? Crossing the Atlantic. North of San Francisco, flying low and slow above the rolling hills of Marin County, I looked down ...