First Atlantic Jet Crossing

[VEGAS]

Got your PM Garry.

Fangs a lot

[Garry Russell]

Garry

[cstorey]

How bloody this thread has become! people have made a meal of it. Yes, it was a flight of 6 Vampires, who flew without air to air refuelling via Stornoway, Iceland and ( I think) Goose - haven't got the Telegraph to check

About the third post was interesting, because the Canberra was ( and as far as I know still is) the only aircraft to have done a non-stop return crossing of the Atlantic from Northern ireland to Newfoundland and back again

Chris

[Brian Franklin]

I think they went the same route as the Reds Gnats in 1972 ie Stornoway, Keflavik, Sonderstrom, Goose etc..

[jab]

Is it a comet or some Metor's in 1946 going to the US of A ? Or its July 14 1948, six de Havilland Vampire F3s of No 54 Squadron RAF became the first jet aircraft to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. Commanded by Wg Cdr D S Wilson-MacDonald, DSO, DFC, they flew via Stornoway, Iceland and Labrador to Montreal on the first leg of a goodwill tour of Canada and the US.


And the first jet non-stop was in February 21 1951. An RAF Canberra B Mk 2 (serial number WD932) flown by Sqd Ldr A Callard, became the first jet aircraft to make a non-stop transatlantic flight when it flew from Aldergrove, Northern Ireland to Gander, Newfoundland. The flight covered almost 1,800 miles in 4h 37 m. The aircraft was being flown to the U.S. to act as a pattern aircraft for the Martin B-57.

Ok I cheated from my big flight book that I have STUPID

james :dance:

[Garry Russell]

James

The answer was given two posts above yours :think:

Garry

[jab]

Just gave you some more info about the flights

James

[T6flyer]

and for those who didnt have a clue what I was on about in my first post:

Eight legged creature = Spider and the creature that lives under the sea = Crab.

Spider Crab was the name originally given to the Vampire.

Martin

[cstorey]

Ah, Martin...I'd forgotten about the original name, so you were correct all along

Chris

[rich byrne]

if I was to say the name "Bill Wood" - would that make things interesting?

Now that it's out of its coffin, so to speak, this is an interesting first hand account by one of the pilots,


http://uk.geocities.com/[email protected]/wood10.htm