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A transatlantic flight is the flight of an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe, Africa, South Asia, or the Middle East to North America, Latin...

1929) was a German aviation pioneer and initiator of the first transatlantic aeroplane flight from East to West. Hünefeld was born in Königsberg, East Prussia...

by aeroplane in "less than 72 consecutive hours". A small amount of mail was carried on the flight, making it the first transatlantic airmail flight. The...

German Junkers W 33 aircraft that made the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west on April 12 and 13, 1928. After weather delays...

German aircraft which had just completed the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west, but was damaged and unflyable after a landing...

Then its flight from the Azores to Lisbon completed the first transatlantic flight between North America and Europe, and two more flights from Lisbon...

2002). "The five first flights". WW1 AERO - The Journal of the Early Aeroplane. Jürgen Schmidhuber (2003). "First Powered Flight - Plane Truth". Nature...

The Bristol Aeroplane Company, originally the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, was both one of the first and one of the most important British aviation...

The 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot was a terrorist plot to detonate liquid explosives, carried aboard airliners travelling from the United Kingdom to...

Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west. 1934 – The strongest surface wind gust in...

minutes. June 28, 1939 (1939-06-28): The first scheduled commercial transatlantic flight was operated by Pan American Airways on a Boeing B-314 Clipper with...

that flew from 1928 to 1937. It offered the first commercial transatlantic passenger flight service. The ship was named after the German airship pioneer...

France from Paris-Roissy and British Airways from London Heathrow. Transatlantic flights were the main market, to Washington Dulles from 24 May, and to New...

flight, a transatlantic passage to Rio de Janeiro scheduled to depart from there on March 31. Hugo Eckener was not to be the commander of the flight,...

crossing of the Atlantic and was achieved weeks after the first transatlantic aeroplane flight by British aviators Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur...

reaches Greenly Island, Canada, completing the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west. 1929 – The inaugural Monaco Grand Prix takes...

Flights Are Long. The Planes Are Cramped". New York Times. Retrieved 29 July 2007. Paur, Jason. "High Winds Forcing Pitstops On Transatlantic Flights"...

European destinations via its base at Keflavík International Airport. Transatlantic flight Atlantic Bridge: the Official Account of RAF Transport Command's...

Archived January 14, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Flight International, December 17, 1964, p. 1034 Aeroplane – The Battle of Berlin, Vol. 111, No. 2842, p...

attempted by some early flight attempts, but water take off and landing began in earnest in the 1910s and seaplanes pioneered transatlantic routes, and were...