Lieutenant Colonel Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, 1886 1948, left, and Captain Sir John William Alcock, 1892  1919, right. Navigator and pilot respectively of the first non-stop transatlantic flight from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, Connemara, Ireland in 1919. Inset, enthusiastic crowds receive them on their arrival in London. From The Story of Twenty Five Years, published 1935.