Me. Ever since the 1st 88 his sword through the air daredevil pundits set their sights on crossing the Atlantic Ocean nonstop. The smom people they were conquerors of Long Distances they fought against wind and weather they were in complete control of airplane technology they were true heroes. On the wish to share his. Without todays navigational aids they flew into the unknown battling the forces of nature and their own exhaustion weather conditions on the atlantic or a horrific story sometimes because as Everybody Knows even today the atlantic is in. Unpredictables. Several high nearing aviators lost their lives attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean by plane. New york city that was the destination of countless migrants and adventurous. For centuries it was only possible to reach america by ship. Until 100 years ago when the age of transatlantic flight and modern travel and. The pioneers of the skies began competing for the aviation equivalent of the blue ribbon and they piloted this low loud propeller airplanes by sight to reach new york sensational flights which especially in those early days of open single engine planes could easily be face or. Was probably the most famous chance atlantic a. T. s it was the american Charles Lindbergh. On may the 20th 927. 00 lindbergh took off from long island and his motto paying the spirits of st louis. 33 and a half hours later he landed in paris and made a v. H. S. In history as the 1st person to make a solo nonstop flights across the Atlantic Ocean. But even with lindbergh there was a big crowd cheering on his takeoff from new york and a huge audience waiting for him when he landed many hours later in paris in part i know you see him mention many of involve. Americas celebrated lindbergh as a national hero. On his return hundreds of thousands grease of him like a celebrity. President Calvin Coolidge presented him with the 1st ever distinguished flying cross the highest us award in aviation. Pictures of the event was seen across the world. One had. Several cameras present and the footage was shown in the news reels. And the Media Coverage of the event in the 1920 s. Created such a lasting impression that its still etched in the public memory. But was not the 1st to come to the atlantic by plane. British men had managed the journey 8 years earlier their time hearing achievement was largely forgotten. 1919 just one year after the end of world war one many former military flyers were unemployed they had survived air battles and dropped bombs now they tried to make ends meet in civil aviation. They presented their skills and set record after record. German military pilots could not compete because the treaty of versailles prohibited them from flying. Transatlantic nonstop flights had never been achieved. But ever since the british newspaper the daily mail had announced a prize of 10000 pounds for making the journey a race to fly across the atlantic was underway. That was an incredibly high some back then. So of course many of the lets call them war dogs were delighted to compete in that arena he says felt. In the spring of 919. 00 a small group of dad. Gathered at an airfield in newfoundland they were going to attempt. To fly to europe. An american newspaper called them suicidal. It was going to. Say the ones who 1st made the leap across the atlantic right delist and adventurers like to just take a look at the planes from that time if. These were cloth covered wooden boxes with engines that generally didnt last more than 40 analysts before they had to be replaced. But the risk of engine failure during a flight over the atlantic was exorbitantly high. And that sense of the word suicidal was actually quite fitting which was a good reason. To have these adventurous seasoned British Military pilots. Be. The 1st ones and theyre the real heroes today theyre somewhere in the shadows and not in the spotlight. Theyre in brown to englishman the theyve got a largely unchanged old english bomber Vickers Vinnie which they modified in particular they modified it to be able to take much more fuel for the distance. Than him for the. Plan to fly the more than 3000 kilometer long journey through the rain and snow in an open unprotected cockpit that was because pilots back then believed that you had to be able to see what was going on outside an experienced pilot needed to feel the wind he needed to smell whether the engines were working he perceived the flight situation through his own senses. Experienced. But they had little sense of what lay ahead of them over the water. No one before them had flown that far. In the early afternoon of june the 14th 919 the 2 british pilots decided to take advantage of the good weather for their take off. Their plane was overloaded with fuel and struggle to ascend. One exhaust pipe tore off during takeoff let made the plane so loud that the 2 could only communicate in writing. This is how. They flew over the water. This is a grand excursion fog nothing but for. Some stars around to. Care for a sound of. Brown scribbled that message has planted kanika on a piece of paper. They had offered problems with rain and snow. The cockpit on their aircraft was an open cockpit field rain water they were told and they actually lost out the children who were tumbling towards the ocean. Just before colliding with the water alcott finally managed to regain control of the plane i could already clearly see the foam on the waves as navigator brown would lay so right. More than once the fuel gauge disappeared under snow and ice during the flight. Brown had to climb up onto the wings to clear them. After 16 and a half hours the flight the irish coast finally came into sight they flew inland close to the village of clifton they saw a meadow and decided to land there but the meadow turned out to be a bark landing. Became a crash landing but they have made it. At land take prize one british victory and brown are heroes the london times herald the success. London is celebrated in the streets king george the 5th 98 alcoholic and brown beyond the British Isles their pioneering journey was hardly mentioned and before long almost entirely forgotten. On had an alcoholic and brown had the problem of radio and Television Access that was still completely underdeveloped i myself would be convinced of being human in so if someone in canada decided to fly to europe the time it took for that message to reach europe caused a problem on this one so they took off from an area with relatively few people from st johns on the canadian island of newfoundland and the place where they landed in ireland was also remote and. All your friends when the people from the nearest airfield arrived they asked what are you doing here. They had no idea that these were the 1st to conquer the north atlantic not atlantic but. Just 3 weeks later on july the 6th 919 and airship crossed the atlantic for the 1st time. This rare footage shows the arrival of the british are 34 in new york the lighter than air craft was largely based on the germans their plan. To journey to new york took 108 alice just over 4 days and nights it was the 1st flights from east to west against the prevailing wind direction. 3 days after learning. The and 34. 00 set off back to europe with a tail wind blowing west to east the return trip took only 75. 00 alice just over 3 days. But the majestic airships could no longer keep pace with the new age in which speed was everything within 10 years commercial airplane travel within europe had become almost commonplace. The German Airline dartrey love tons are offered flights from munich to what was then the pression city of clinics back and also to madrid and copenhagen. Life was becoming increasingly fast paced and distances were effectively shrinking. In the burnin district of temple hall of a new airport with modern check in counters was opened. But flying across the atlantic from east to west against the wind that remained to dream and until the end of the 920. 00 s. That is when the story of that 1st transatlantic journey began in temple it was pioneered by live turns as night flight director in temple hall of helmand could. Clear it was a highly decorated world war one military pilots he chose a very special plane for his attempt the young curse w 33. 00 a single engine all metal aircraft. It was more weatherproof and reliable than the cloth covered wooden planes. This was a custom made model built especially for the chance atlantic flight. There was no door so pilots had to enter through a hatch. Additional fuel tanks were installed in the wings airbags were added intended to keep the plane afloat in case of Emergency Landing on board. The engine had 50 horsepower more than the standard model the additional tanks held some 2000 leases of fuel and yes it wasnt clear whether this would be enough. Calculating the precise amount of fuel needed for a manually controlled visual flight was impossible especially if the plane were to encounter atlanta extols. Locust 14927. 00 the 1st attempt to cross the atlantic westward failed to w. 33. 00 the braman and the euro per ran into bad weather and had to turn back. The europa crashed and only the brave men managed to return. But coup was undeterred together with his partner evan fleet going to have high heaven who know if it from braman he began searching for sponsors because what they needed above all was funding. From unified the press office a German Shipping Company not the actual lloyd made it his mission to secure it. Continue for a while and for only a very close or committed and determined person their god sequence he couldnt fly because the result of but he did want to know truthfully by accident his health was very poor he was blind in one eye and needed a monocle to see with the other plus he had a war injury and hed have a lot of stomach surgery and all he was an ailing person i think his amends but his enthusiasm and his vision of crossing the atlantic were stronger than the obstacles the aca its the hiddenness and had he gathered up all the private assets he still had and invested them in this flight is no fluke in this year that. Leaves us we hear he said fine ah cancel my Life Insurance policy he put up 80000 marks and said ill buy the plane. But then i want to fly in it to. Irish mike to meet flea. And huna ferry boat the braman from aircraft designer who has with this plane they wanted to attempt the journey again in spring 928 but it was risky several pilots had lost their lives trying to make the east West Crossing and more and more people were saying that single engine planes were completely unsuitable for the route because of that one intern failed your luck was over. It without there was a Smear Campaign saying that this was a mad endeavor. That it was impossible to cross the atlantic from europe to america nonstop by plane when so many what is sheer so the pressure on them was rising mel and mel. Left turns out threatening to fire her if he attempted the flight German Authorities also wanted to stop him. So coup decided to do it clandestinely. In the Early Morning of march 26th 928 the braman set off from tampa hove. Had officially scheduled a test flight to decile its become for those crew when it became clear that curl intended to attempt the flight anyway the aviation officials were ordered to confiscate the plane and. That current overflew the test flight was a ruse the real target was ireland wake her and from whom if it wanted to make a stopover before crossing the atlantic. Island is the western most tip of europe which is why most of the asian pioneers chose it as their destination or departure point. d not far from the capital dublin. Lize bell donald the main base of the irish air force. Girl landed on the airfield in march 928. 00 hoping for support. Hall of on his own failed coming through. For the force leg of the transatlantic flight. To the government here and got permission to use piled on a lot of the city ready. The irish air corps and bell donald was led by another passionate pilots commandant James Fitzmaurice d. d d d the irish man also dreamed of conquering the atlantic by plane and like he had already attempted the journey once before despite not sharing a language the 3 aviators got along immediately gets morris he was Commanding Officer and belt on here to tell him i was able to use the resources of the station troops to take the ground to put the Railway Sleepers in to put the seal on the aircraft of if you are the food you know get the weather forecasts are back honest or so are the resources of the military aviation station were poured into action boy fitzmaurice for this for 8 years beforehand. But the weather wasnt playing along. In early april 928. 00 it rained for several days in a row. The airfield had grants landing fields which became so soggy that it was impossible to take off in a plane overloaded with fuel. Curve proposed taking fitzmaurice on the flight. The irishman was delighted he saw it as an opportunity to make up for his failed 1st attempt. Curry was also happy. With experienced pilots on board as well. They would be able to take turns steering the long flight. April 12th 928 at last it was telling. At 5 12 am the engine was started the pilots let it warm up for a quarter of an hour it was running quietly and evenly could describe the scene the rescue vehicles are already in position if they take off aerials theyll take us out of the rubble. At 5 30 am the command was given to remove the chocks the plane began to roll its takeoff weight was more than 3 and a half tons it only slowly accelerated. The plane lumbered into the air and jolted downwards. But then it was the last and flying towards america. Once theyd crossed ireland the atlantic appeared with a litel screeching in the distance. Before long we were flying over bare red cliffs and the atlantic was beneath us it was almost as if it felt respect for the silver bird flying over it. It was only a gentle swirl and gently rippled waves to the south there was a steamer at 1st and the last one of the flight. But before long dark clouds appeared on the iranians and. Respectable just like. The weather turned bad and they only had a compass with them and they came into such strong winds that he began to think theyd have to turn around. Lou for you know for the see. Behind that the massive dark cloud was piling up. Game horribly cold. So the head winds pushing against them all the time pushing them off course they had to navigate through storms very bad weather going all the storms to navigate by the stars coming down to the sea level to see what way the wind was affecting the waves and the spray to get wind direction and then having to go back to get the medium so Everything Everything was stacked against them between whether or not the gauge and communication. The wind grab the plane and hold it was the way the wings trembled at times the aircraft seemed on the verge of bursting apart so one stage i think youre about 12 hours into the flight and fitzmorris how do you open the cockpit stand on the seat get down into the on to the floor to feel around because there was fluid there that in the words engine oil are our fuel he came back or locked the cockpit down wrote a note and said we have a problem. Engine damage at this stage would have meant certain death as the men well knew and the plane that got off course in the storm. But when morning dawned they saw they were flying over ice and snow over land was this labrador in canada beneath them how much longer will the engine hold out they changed course to fly south east in search for some sign of civilization then they spotted a light when they lowered your altitude you realize that this was their hopes on green the oil and so they flew around a circle around the oil and until they found a flat area which turned out to be a frozen lake if you put the aircraft. I want a pair for tree point loudly. The landing gear broke into the ice and was damaged but it made it they were in north america after 36. 00 and a half hours in the air. Only later when they realized that they could even if made it to new york. When we measured the fuel that was in the aircraft after they landed they read lawyers that they had flown twice the distance if they had gone straight on to new york but flown toy stuffed distance with all the zig zagging when they measured the fuel they had been paid marginal fuel the carry on. In new york the 3 transatlantic aviators were given a rousing reception a confetti parade on 5th avenue that supplants everything seen before. Over 2000000 people lined the streets to cheer them. On the site the birthplace the speaker it really shows how tremendously excited people were about this is chief mount and not just officials but the general population of this well. In new york hammond cooper was reunited with his wife elizabeth who had always supported her husband and feared for his safety. If they moved to florida and try to imagine explaining to your wife your find somewhere to go and that you dont know whether youll be coming back but her mark kirk was so enthusiastic and so focused on the market his wife said ok and afterwards she sent a telegram he called repeatedly and she wrote i remember your paper. They would give braman 3 in america everywhere the irishman and the 2 germans went to the u. S. They were celebrated as heroes in chicago and st louis they were made honorary citizens their pioneering deed became a symbol of peace and international and a standing. 10 years before the bremen slowly and britain and germany were at war and already in perth the British Empire was at war with germany so im sure that coal and fitzmorris recognized this and this is a moment in history. Braman 3 will also congratulated by Charles Lindbergh who had successfully says his own record by flying the same routes in the opposite direction the previous year. In washington they were received by president coolidge who presented coup from him in a fit and fitzmaurice with the distinguished flying cross they were the 1st non americans to receive this award. And braman germany their reception was as momentous as the one in america helen could lay so we called the event a tremendous impression this reception made brothers the uplifting certainty that we had become tools for building bridges from country to country from continent to continent. At