__1919: __John Alcock and Arthur Brown land their Vickers Vimy airplane in a bog in Clifden, Ireland, marking the end of the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic. It's a good bet to win a drink at ...

For its day, it was a feat as memorable as the moon landing. Keith and Ross Smith flew across the world in 1919, and their plane is going to a new home, writes Lainie Anderson. Those same South Aussie ...

It may have resembled a “coffin with wings”, but the Vickers Vimy biplane sitting at Adelaide Airport propelled its mostly SA crew to fame after one of the most daring and significant flights in ...

Our latest look back into the archive provides a glimpse into early efforts to design an aircraft capable of taking passengers on flights across the Atlantic. The first commercial transatlantic flight ...

ADELAIDE’S aviation museum wants a historic World War I bomber moved from the airport to it, to boost visitor numbers. But first it’ll need a $2m expansion. The century-old plane has been on display ...

BROOKLANDS Museum has opened a new exhibition based around its giant Vickers Vimy bi-plane, which made its last ever flight on November 15 into the grass airstrip at Mercedes-Benz World, and is now on ...

Organizers trying to replicate an historic crossing of the Atlantic Ocean are not having much luck with the weather. Pilot Steve Fossett and navigator Mark Rebholz have been waiting more than a week ...

Two U.S. adventurers have had to postpone their attempt to fly a Vickers Vimy biplane from Newfoundland to Ireland because of mechanical problems. FROM JUNE 1, 2005: Historic biplane replica lands in ...

When SA astronaut Andy Thomas was blasted into orbit on board the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1996 he carried a collection of Australian artefacts with him — including the pilot wings of two South ...