(John Alcock, 1892–1919, KBE 1919; Arthur Whitten Brown, 1886–1948, KBE 1919)
British aviators who on 14–15 June 1919 achieved the first nonstop Transatlantic flight. The journey of 16hr 27min in a Vickers Vimy twin-engined biplane, from St John's in Newfoundland to Clifden on the west coast of Ireland, won them the £10,000 prize offered by the Daily *Mail. A few months later Alcock died from a fractured skull, sustained when landing near Rouen on a flight to Paris.
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