stackyFACTSCharles Lindbergh usually gets all the glory because he did it solo, but he was incredibly late to the actual party.
Charles Lindbergh usually gets all the glory because he did it solo, but he was incredibly late to the actual party. In 1919, British pilots John Alcock and Arthur Brown climbed into a modified World War I bomber and blindly flew through terrifying snowstorms from Newfoundland to Ireland. They crash-landed nose-first into a literal bog, walked away completely uninjured, and successfully claimed the ultimate prize in early aviation history.
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