FIRST ATLANTIC FLIGHT
BROWN AND ALGOCK MEMORIAL PROPOSED (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, June 4. (Received June o, at noon.) It is understood that an announcement regarding the provision of a permanent memorial of the first Atlantic flight, made by Sir John Alcock and Sir Arthur Whitten Brown on Juno 31, 1019, will he made at a luncheon to be held next week to celebrate the tenth anniversary of thp flight. It is proposed to erect obelisks at their starting point in Newfoundland and at the finishing point in Ireland, and in addition to hold 'each year on June 14 a special anniversary flying event.
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Evening Star, Issue 20193, 5 June 1929, Page 9
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107FIRST ATLANTIC FLIGHT Evening Star, Issue 20193, 5 June 1929, Page 9
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