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 ...

The original flight was the ultimate in ETOPS, made long before regulators defined what constitutes acceptable risk when crossing open water. The attempt will be every bit the challenge in extended ...

To mark 100 years since the first transatlantic flight, we look back at the story of the historic crossing through the eyes of the Flight archive "We have had a terrible journey. "The wonder is we are ...

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 ...

NEW YORK, Nov. 20, 1916 (UP) - Ruth Law took her place as the premier woman aviator of the world to-day, when she broke the American record for cross-country flying. PLYMOUTH, England, May 31, 1919 ...

Click to open image viewer. With the successful crossings of the Atlantic in 1919 by the U.S. Navy's NC-4 and Alcock and Brown in a Vickers Vimy, circumnavigation of the globe by airplane was a ...

THE expedition which started from Cairo on February 6 should be memorable as the first use of long-distance aeroplane flight for scientific and geographical research. Thanks to the enterprise of the ...