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Aviation History: The First Non-Stop Flight Across the Atlantic

In June 1919, John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown flew a converted war bomber non-stop across the Atlantic — sixteen hours of fog and ice that ended with a crash-landing in an Irish bog. A B2 retelling, with a sequencing exercise.

Aviation History: The First Non-Stop Flight Across the Atlantic
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