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1925
1925 - 0351.PDF
JUNK 11, 1925 WfiMiiSitlMliSiB •'• • i •niMHiajifanuiHiHiiwiiJi TWO ATLANTIC CROSSINGS : Six years ago, on Sunday next, a Vickers' " Vimy " with two Rolls-Royce engines, piloted by the late Sir John Alcock, and navigated by Sir A. Whitten Brown, left Newfoundland on its flight across the Atlantic, landing 16 hours 12 mins. later at Clifden, Co. Galway, Ireland, thus completing the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic. Columbus's ship "Santa Maria," left the Canary Islands on September 6, 1492, and made a landfall at what is now known as Watling Island, in the Bahama group, on October 12. The object of the above illustration is to show the comparative sizes of the craft, and it might be pointed out that the drawing was made over a photograph of two models made to the same scale and photographed in position in the vertical plane, so that even taking into account the effect of perspective a correct idea of relative sizes is obtained. 351
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