Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1919 — NOTABLE FEAT. [ARTICLE]

NOTABLE FEAT.

The flight of the Vickers-Vimy biacross the Atlantic was one of three recent notable and daring achievements by airmen. To Captain Alcock and Lieutenant Brown goes the high honor of having made the first non-stop air passage of the Atlantic, the achievement going to the credit of Great Britain. The Atlantic had already been spanned in an air journey, however, the feat having been performed by American naval officers in the seaplane Nc-4 with a stop at the Azores enroufe from Newfoundland to Lisbon, Portugal, the journey beginning Masr 16 and ending May 27. Less successful, but no less daring than the achievement of the VickersVimy pilot and navigator, was the recent flight by two other British airmen, Harry G. Hawker and Liev»t. Commander Mackenzie Grieve, on May 19. They covered more than hdlf the distance across the Atlantic before being forced to alight in midocean. For nearly a week they were given up for lost, but finally turned up safe on board a small craft which took them almost to Ireland before news of their dramatic tescue was relayed to shore by a British destroyer. 7 j