Talk:Transatlantic flight

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One important event missing: March 30-June 17, 1922. Portuguese aviators Sacadura Cabral, as pilot, and Gago Coutinho, as navigator, fly across the Atlantic from Lisbon, Portugal to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in three Fairey III floatplanes, successively used as the aviators are forced to ditch twice. They eventually arrived in Rio aboard the Fairey named "Santa Cruz". First time that men fly across the Atlantic using the stars for navigation, with the Coutinho-modified sextant (introduction of an artificial horizon).

One other important event missing: Canadians Harry Richman & Robert Merrill made the first transatlantic round trip flight 1936. Trekphiler 23:48, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Names of Fairey IIID seaplanes (1922)? 2 Radio controlled / unmanned aircraft 3 2hrs from land? 4 Lighter-than-air aircraft? 5 Long Island is not on the mainland! 6 Ride 'em cowgirl 7 So what?

[edit] Names of Fairey IIID seaplanes (1922)?

Can anyone confirm the names of the Fairy IIID seaplanes used by Cabral and Coutinho in 1922? This wikipedia page, and several others (probably using the same sources) say that the second seaplane was called "Patria Brasileira", but I've seen sources that say that the second seaplane was called "Portugal". Here is my main source: [1] Based on this source (which claims to be "Based on the reports written by the two aviators themselves which are available in publications and mimeographed documents in the Reference Library of the Navy Museum in Lisbon"), I am changing the article to say the second seaplane was called "Portugal". I've also added a link to the reference in the article. If anyone can find a source that says something different, can they please add a comment here as well. Thanks. 194.200.237.219 12:42, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Radio controlled / unmanned aircraft

Given the opening blurb to this article,(Transatlantic flight is any flight of an aircraft, whether fixed-wing aircraft, balloon or other device...) why is there no reference to transatlantic crossings by rc/unmanned aircraft, such as TAM 5? Does this not warrant a mention? Sydb 15:20, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2hrs from land?

Yeah I wish! Most flights are over seven hours from New York to London. They flights are mostly over 5 hrs I would say , not the two described by the image.Tourskin 01:33, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lighter-than-air aircraft?

I don't see anything about trans-Atlantic flights or attempts by balloon/Zeppelin etc. I think those should be added.

[edit] Long Island is not on the mainland!

The entry for the Lindbergh flight credits Lucky Lindy with the first flight from the "American mainland." However, the flight originated on Long Island, which is not part of the mainland. (It is also not in "New York City" as the article states.)

72.128.92.222 (talk) 06:41, 11 January 2008 (UTC)Paul Lyman

Fixed. Trekphiler (talk) 15:31, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ride 'em cowgirl

Amelia rode as a passenger; who crewed the F.VII? Trekphiler (talk) 15:30, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] So what?

Absent evidence these are notable, I deleted.

• January 16, 1933 - Jean Mermoz and crew make a non-stop flight from Senegal to Brazil, across South Atlantic, in 17 hours 27 minutes.
• January 22 - January 26, 1926 Plus Ultra was a Dornier Do J hydroplane which completed a Trans-Atlantic flight with a crew of Spanish aviators, that included Ramón Franco and Julio Ruiz de Alda Miqueleiz, Juan Manuel Duran and Pablo Rada.
• June 29 - June 30, 1934 - Polish-Americans Benjamin and Joseph Adamowicz, amateur pilots, flew across the Atlantic from Newfoundland to France.

Trekphiler (talk) 15:41, 29 April 2008 (UTC)