Alcock and Brown - T-shirt Rafale 74 Training Squadron started operational

74 Training Squadron started operational life in 1917

but was more widely used by NATO

Eventually in 1960 the company became part of the British Aircraft Corporation

Roles included photo-reconnaissance

Alcock and Brown - T-shirt Rafale 74 Training Squadron started operationalThe first Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown John Alcock was a military pilot during World War I and Arthur Whitten Brown was an engineer and pilot during the war. Both had been shot down and imprisoned by the Germans, during this time both resolved together to cross the Atlantic by air. After the war they both worked with Vickers to convert a Vimy to be able to undertake the long flight. On the 14th June both set off from Newfoundland. After 12