Airships
Sir, — “The Press,” December 28, gives credit to Lindbergh as the first to fly across the Atlantic. Are Alcock and Brown forgotten* already? Also, the fact that a British airship, the R 34, flew
across the Atlantic and back,, long before the Graf Zeppelin was built is ignored. Give the English credit where credit is due; otherwise you may be saying the Americans invented the hovercraft, the Japanese radar and the Germans penicillin. —Yours, etc., P. G. FINDLAY, Reef ton. . , , 28 , ;’1979. [Sir John Alcock and Lieutenant A. W. Brown made the first crossing of the Atlantic from Newfoundland to Clifden, Ireland, in. June, 1919. Lindbergh was the first to make the crossing solo. The R 34 crossed the Atlantic twice in July, 1919. However, the article was about the Graf Zeppelin and other German airships.—Editor]
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