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On this day in 1919
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2021 4:02 am
by EA01
Apparently, according to the paper today.....The British Naval Dirigible R-34 lands in New York from Scotland...the First Crossing of the Atlantic by an Airship.
(But our local paper is a joke, so I'd have to check this)
Re: On this day in 1919
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2021 9:17 am
by Pontius Navigator
The British airship R-34 left the United Kingdom on July 2, 1919, and arrived in the U.S. at Mineola, Long Island, New York, on July 6, after flying for 108 hours. A week later, the R-34 flew back to the U.K., completing the first return journey by air across the Atlantic.
And no signs of scurvy.
Re: On this day in 1919
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2021 9:28 am
by G-CPTN
Was the journey non-stop?
Re: On this day in 1919
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2021 9:48 am
by Undried Plum
I think they stopped at each end.
The Scottish end was at East Fortune airfield, which still exists in the form of a good aeronautical museum.
It makes me old to recall flying to Heathrow from there on a BEA Viscount while Turnhouse Rwy 31/13 was being re-surfaced.