John Alcock

Born

November 5, 1892

Died

December 18, 1919 (aged 27)

Known as

aircraft pilot, air force officer

Captain Sir John William Alcock was a British Royal Navy and later Royal Air Force officer who, with navigator Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, piloted the first non-stop transatlantic flight from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, Ireland in June 1919. He died in a flying accident in France in December later that same year.

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