Ever since the 1st 88 has soared through the air day devil time that set the sights on crossing the Atlantic Ocean nonstop. The small and they were conquerors of Long Distances they fought against wind and weather they were in complete control of airplane technology if they were true heroes on that wish to share it. Without todays navigational aids they flew into the unknown battling the forces of nature and their own exhaustion weather conditions in the atlantic or a horrific story sometimes because as Everybody Knows even today the atlantic is is. Actually i say unpredictable. Several pioneering aviators lost their lives attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean by plane. In. New york a 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 money is of the sky began competing for the aviation equivalent of the blue ribbon and they piloted this slowdown propeller airplanes by sight to reach new york sensational flights which especially in those early days of open single engine planes could easily be facing. Was probably the most famous transatlantic a. T. s it was the american Charles Lindbergh. On may the 20th 927. 00 lindbergh took off from long island in his motto paying the status of st louis. 33 and a half hours later he landed in paris and made a vs 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 pollys well i know you see him mention many of involve the. Americas celebrated lindbergh as a national hero. On his return hundreds of thousands crease of him like a celebrity. President Calvin Coolidge presented him with the 1st ever distinguished flying cross the highest u. S. Award in aviation. Pictures of the event was seen across the world. Manhattan. There were cameras present and the footage was shown in the news reels in the Media Coverage of the event in the 1920 s. Created such a lasting impression that it still etched in the public memory. Was not the 1st to come to the atlantic by plane to 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 and dropped bombs now they try 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. A transatlantic nonstop flights had never been achieved. But ever since the british newspaper the daily mail had announced a price of 10000. 00 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 dead flying is gathered at an airfield in newfoundland they were going to attempt. To fly to europe. And america newspaper called them suicidal. For the most you 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. These were cloth covered wooden boxes with engines that generally didnt more than 40 hours before they had to be replaced. 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. The 1st ones and theyre the real heroes today theyre somewhere in the shadows and not in the spotlight. There are 2 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. Its been in for. The more than 3000 kilometer long journey through 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 struggled to ascend. One exhaust pipe tore off during takeoff leg made the plane so loud that the 2 could only communicate in writing. This is how for now as they flew over the water. This is a grand excursion far nothing but fuck no ships or stars or. Care for a sandwich brown scribbled that message to his pilot colleague on a piece of paper. They had often problems with rain and. The cockpit on their aircraft. Cockpit field rain water they went in. And they actually lost out the children who were tumbling toward 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 later write. 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 bog landing the. Came a crash landing but they had maintained. Atlantic prions one british victory and brown our hero the london times herald it their success. London is celebrated in the streets king george the 5th knighted alcott and brown bus beyond the British Isles their pioneering journey was hardly mentioned and before long almost entirely forgotten. On had an alcoholic in brown had the problem of radio and Television Access that was still completely underdeveloped on myself within the confines of indium and 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 when london done in your learned all your friends when the people from the nearest airfield arrived they asked what are you doing here thats they had no idea that these were the 1st to conquer the north atlantic not atlantic but you know. Just 3 weeks later on july the 6th 919 and a ship 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 and. The 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 out to learning. The our 34. 00 set off back to europe with a tail wind blowing west to east the return trip took only 75 hours 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 berlin district of temple hall for a new airport with modern check in counters was opened. By flying across the atlantic from east to west against the wind that remained a dream and until the end of the 1920 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 plane this clears was a custom made model built especially for the chance atlantic flight. There was no door so pilots had to enter through a hatch in. 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 pieces of fuel and yet 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 atlantis storms. Ogust 14927 the 1st attempt to cross the Atlantic West with failed to w 33 the braman and the road her ran into bad weather and had to turn back. The europa crashed and only the brain managed to return. But coup was undeterred together with his partner 11 feet good to have high heaven who know if it from braman he began searching for sponsors because what they needed above all was funding. From uniphase the press office a German Shipping Company not our show lloyd made it his mission to secure it. So we knew for one prominent bird was a committed and determined person your god sealants he couldnt fly because the result of but he did want to or to know truthfully. His health was very poor he was blind in one eye and needed a monocle to see with the other one or plus he had a war injury and hed have a lot of stomach surgery and all he was an ailing person i think had a mans but his enthusiasm and his vision of crossing the atlantic were stronger than the obstacles. Its the hidden and had he gathered up all the private assets he still had and invested them in this flight had been a fluke in the mists year that. Leaves us here he said fine ah cancel my Life Insurance asacol he put up 80000 marks and said ill buy the plane. But then i want to fly in it to. A remote image. And unify both the brim and from aircraft designer who got younkers 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 engine 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. What is she years so the pressure on them was rising meowing to melt. Turns out threaten to fire her if you attempted the flight to manila thors hes also wanted to stop him. So crew decided to do it clandestinely. In the Early Morning of march 26th 928 the braman set off from tampa home. Had officially scheduled a test flight to decile its become for those crew when it became clear that curly 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 with 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 us from pioneers chose it as their destination or departure point. Not far from the capital dublin. Lize del donald the main base of the irish air force. Colonel landed on the airfield in march 928 hoping for support was. Call of on his own sales coming through donald for the force leg of the transatlantic flight route to the government here and got permission to use Donald Arthur the city d. The irish air corps in bel donal was led by another passionate pilots commandant James Fitzmaurice d. The irishman also dreamed of conquering the atlantic by plane and likely to get already attempted the journey once before. Despite not sharing a language the 3 aviators got along immediately fitzmaurice he was Commanding Officer and bowed on ahead of time was able to use the resources of the station troops to dig the ground to put the regulation reapers in to put the fuel on the aircraft of if you are the food you know get the weather forecasts are back on a store saw the results of a military aviation station where pour into action if its mars for days for just beforehand. But the weather wasnt playing along. In early april 928. 00 it rained for several days in a row. The airfield had grass landing fields which became so soggy that it was impossible to take off in a plane overloaded with field. Curves 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 toiling. 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 slowed accelerated. The plane lumbered into the air and jolted downwards. But then it was a loft and flying towards america. Once theyd crossed ireland the atlantic appeared with a lighthouse greasing 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. There was only a gentle swirl and gently rippled waves to the south there was a steamer at 1st and last one of the flight. But before long dark clouds appeared on the iranians and. Respectable additionally. 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 grief to be over the see. Behind that the massive dark cloud was piling up. It became horribly cold. So the heavy winds pushing against them all the time pushing them off course they have navigated through storms very bad weather throughout the storms to navigate british tires coming down to sea level to see what way the winds are affecting the way its under spray to get wind direction and then having to go back to get the medium so everything they were doing was stacked against them between whether or not to gauge from communication. The wind grab the plane and hold it towards the waves the wings trembled at times the aircraft seemed on the verge of bursting apart so i one stage i think you were able 12 hours into the floyd. How to open the cockpit stand on the seat get there on 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 kind of 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 the altitude they realize that this was their hopes on green the oil and they spent flury owner circle around the oil and until they found a flock area which turned out to be a frozen lake if we put the aircraft. What a perfect 3 point landing. The landing gear broke into the ice and was damaged us theyve made it they were in north america after 36. 00 and a half hours in the air. Only later would they realize 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 have gone straight on to new york theyd flown toys dustiest and were all the zig zagging when they measured the fuel they had paid marginal fuel to carry on. In new york the 3 transatlantic audiences were given a rousing reception a confetti parade on 5th avenue thats a past everything seen before. Over 2000000 people lined the streets to cheer them. Just like the booklet this because it really shows how tremendously excited people were about this is chief meant 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 before them so try to imagine explaining to your wife or 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 for good his wife said ok in the head 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 in the u. S. They were celebrated as heroes in chicago and st louis they were made on rare citizens they pioneering deed became a symbol of peace and international understanding. 10 years before the bremen slowly and britain and germany were at war and already been paired the British Empire was at war with germany then too so im sure that cole and fitzmorris recognized this and this is a moment in history. Braman 3 were also congratulated by Charles Lindbergh who had successfully set 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 for him in effect and fitzmorris with the distinguished flying cross they were the 1st non americans to receive this award. In braman germany their reception was as momentous as the one in america hellman could lay so we called the event a tremendous impression this reception made brought us the uplifting certainty that we had become tools for building bridges from country to country from continent to continent. At the end of june there was a reception