__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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The famous aircraft South Australian brothers Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith flew from England to Australia a century ago will be housed in this new home at Adelaide Airport. It is 100 years since South ...

BROOKLANDS Museum has opened a new exhibition based around its giant Vickers Vimy bi-plane, which made its last ever flight on November 15 into the grass airstrip at Mercedes-Benz World, and is now on ...

The Vimy was the first aircraft to fly non-stop across the Atlantic.This flyable modern replica was built in 1994 to re-enact the type's three long distance flights of 1919-20. Its first flight was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two American adventurers have flown a Vickers Vimy biplane replica across the Atlantic, re-creating the first non-stop transatlantic flight, made in 1919. Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, 60, and ...

The Vimy was the first aircraft to fly non-stop across the Atlantic.This flyable modern replica was built in 1994 to re-enact the type's three long distance flights of 1919-20. Its first flight was ...