Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-15 | Page 20 | Bonneville Club is to Hear Hero Aviator Flew Across the Atlantic

T Bonneville Club Is to Hear Hero Aviator Flew Across the Atlantic! Sir Arthur Whitten Brown and Lady Brown Lieutenant Brown to Tell of His Record-Breaking Flight. THE Bonneville club will hear the story of the first nonstop flight from America to Europe wiien Lieutenant Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, one of the only two men who ever stood on the continents of America and Europe on the same day. will be the guest of honor iu a dinner on November 2i. Lieutenant Brown, with Captain Sir John Alcock. hopped across the Atlantic in sixteen hours and twelve minutes June 15. this vear. in the first heavler-than-air machine to make the flight without a stop and without assistance. As navigator of the plane. Lieutenant Brown directed the course. When he and j the pilot. Captain Alcock. reached En- gland, they were knighted by Kins; j George, and W inston Churchill presented them with the "Daily Mail" prize of Jo0.-000 Jo0.-000 for their achievement. Lieutenant Brown's parents were both 1 Americans and he received much of his technical training at the Westlnghousc works in Pittsburg. He is an engineer and had made a hobby of aerial navigation naviga-tion before the war. Entering the English army as a private pri-vate in 1914. he later received a com-i com-i mission In the Manchester regiment and I served in France. Transferred to thi ! Royal Flying corps, he was wounded and ' taken prisoner and was interned In Switzerland, being repatriated In December, Decem-ber, 1M7. He was later engaged with the' ministry of munitions In the production produc-tion nf nrnnlar.f' engines. The pilot. Captain Alcock. had also been a prisoner of war. and was released re-leased when the armistice was signed. The victorious airmen used a Vlekers Vlmy plane, equipped with twin Eagle ' Rolls-Royce engines, on their transatlantic trans-atlantic flight. The plane was of tne I bombing type, and its eonverslon to the great peacetime adventure was accomplished accom-plished bv merely replacing the fighting equipment with extra tanks for fuel. ! During the trip thev averaged 120 miles I an hour. Lieutenant Brown watched the I compass to see that they were on the I course, watched the speedometer and fed i Alcock, for the latter never took his iiands crff the controls In the sixteen i hours of their- night. I Lieutenant Brown is expected to tell t'ne details of Ms achievement at the Bonneville club dinner. The dinne: will be held at the Hotel I'tah.