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Show y across ocean " in sixteen hours BRITISH AND AMERICAN AVIATORS AVIA-TORS MAKE FIRST NON-STOP OVERSEAS FLIGHT. Cross the Atlantic from Newfoundland to Ireland and Win $50,000 Prize, Flight Being a Terrific Battle With the Elements. London. To .Tack Alcock, a captain of the lii'itish myal ail" force, and his navigator, Lieutenant Arthur Brown, an American, goes the lienor of having made the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic from Newfoundland to Ireland. The Daily Mail's $50,000 prize is theirs. Forty minutes after S o'clock Sunday morning the his Vickers-Vimy biplane landed on the beach near Cllfden, Gnl-way. Gnl-way. They made the flight in 10 hours and J2 minutes after they left St. John's, N. F., at 4:13 Saturday afternoon. after-noon. Both pilot and navigator were in good spirits, but terribly fatigued. Every mile of the flight was a terrific battle against the elements. (If the human qualities that combined to conquer con-quer the air on this direct transatlantic route, unshakable pluck was unquestionably unques-tionably the decisive factor. Immediately after landing, Captain Alcock said : "We were tired, being alone in the fog and dizzy. Sometimes we found, ourselves flying upside down, having lost all sense of direction while enveloped en-veloped in the heavy blanket of fog. Our wireless was useless for the greatest great-est part of the flight. The wireless propeller blew off soon after we started start-ed from St. John's. Our receiver was much jammed by strong signals not intended for us." Both Alcock and Lieutenant Brown were in good spirits when they made their landing. |