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By: 14th June 2019 at 21:28 Permalink - Edited 14th June 2019 at 21:52
-Well the 100th anniversary of the crossing in hops by the US Navy's Curtiss NC-4 to Lisbon and Plymouth has been and gone in May...a planned commemorative crossing by 3 Grumman Albatrosses was cancelled some months ago after one of them sank last year. I believe there was some celebration at Rockaway, Long Island (the starting point)? Don't know if anything is planned to commemorate Alcock and Brown's flight...NC-4 at Plymouth [ATTACH=JSON]{"alt":"Click image for larger version Name:\tNC-4-Plymouth.jpg Views:\t0 Size:\t228.5 KB ID:\t3865349","data-align":"none","data-attachmentid":"3865349","data-size":"full"}[/ATTACH]
By: 14th June 2019 at 21:38 Permalink
-https://www.rolls-royce.com/media/our-stories/discover/2019/the-flight-that-changed-history.aspx
By: 15th June 2019 at 22:49 Permalink
-There is an event on Bexley Hall Park on the 21st July. Our Morane Saulnier Type N will be there
By: 15th June 2019 at 23:57 Permalink - Edited 16th June 2019 at 14:03
-Reportedly a big set of celebrations are being held in Eire where Alcock and Brown arrived in their Vimy...the sculpture of them on loan from Heathrow has been shipped to Clifden, Co.Galway for the events.
https://www.rte.ie/news/connacht/201...tenary-flight/
By: 16th June 2019 at 08:51 Permalink
-Brooklands has an exhibition 'First to the Fastest' with the Atlantic replica Vimy, the 50th anniversary air race winning Harrier and of coarse Concorde. https://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/explore/exhibition-areas/first-to-the-fastest
mmitch.
By: 16th June 2019 at 20:41 Permalink - Edited 2nd October 2019 at 14:50
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This is a British aircraft with British crew. Fat chance of anything positive been planned, god forbid we might celebrate the achievement.
I was at the Kensington Science museum earlier this year and the original Vimy was in its usual place with no additional Anniversary information. Non-event, nothing to see here.
A question for the more learned among you. Why does the Vimy have neither military serial or civil registration ?
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By: 16th June 2019 at 20:51 Permalink
-Surprising that the US Navy didn't commemorate the NC-4 crossing with a transatlantic flight as in 1949 and 1986
By: 16th June 2019 at 23:52 Permalink
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This is a British aircraft with British crew. Fat chance of anything positive been planned, god forbid we might celebrate the achievement.
Perfectly fitting with the v of the feat at irtually non-existent reporting of the feat at the time coinciding, as it did, with the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet in Scapa Flow.
Adrian
By: 17th June 2019 at 00:06 Permalink
-Perhaps the Alcock and Brown statue could be displayed more prominently at Heathrow when its returns?
By: 17th June 2019 at 13:10 Permalink - Edited 17th June 2019 at 13:12
-Why does the Vimy have neither military serial or civil registration ?
Because the first permanent British civil register came into force on 22 July 1919, a month after the Trans-Atlantic flight. It was a civil aeroplane at the time, but the requirement to have a registration (or a certificate of airworthiness) wasn't there yet. A temporary scheme had been started on 1 May 1919, but as far as I can tell the Vimy wasn't registered in the K-sequence that was used. And after its undignified arrival in Ireland, the Vimy would not fly again so there was no need to retroactively register it.
More about this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...t_registration
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By: sopwith.7f1 - 14th June 2019 at 19:32
Just wondering if there is anything going on this year, to celebrate 100 year's since the first Atlantic crossing, by an aeroplane ?
Bob T.