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In 1913, Daily Mail put up £10k prize for ‘aviator who shall first cross the Atlantic in an aeroplane in flight from any point in the US, Canada or Newfoundland to any point in Great Britain or Ireland in 72 continuous hours’. Contest suspended in 1914 after outbreak of war: but in June 1919, Cpt John Alcock andy Lt Arthur Whitten Brown made crossing in modified WWI open-cockpit Vickers Vimy bi-plane bomber. In May 1969, to commemorate their pioneering heroism, Daily Mail launched ’The Great Tra…
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