On the thirtieth, NC4 took off for Plymouth, England, and arrived in ten hours and twenty minutes.

Perhaps a phantom ship, with sails set and flags blowing, the name Mayflower on her hull, rode in Plymouth Harbor that day to greet a New England pilot.
On the 14th of June the Vickers-Vimy Rolls-Royce biplane, piloted by John Alcock and with Arthur Whitten Brown as observer-navigator, left St.John's, Newfoundland, and arrived at Clifden, Ireland, in sixteen hours twelve minutes, having made the first non-stop transatlantic flight.

Hawker and Grieve meanwhile had made the same gallant attempt in a single-engined Sopwith machine; and had come down in mid-ocean, after flying fourteen and a half hours, owing to the failure of their water circulation.

Their rescue by slow Danish Mary completed a fascinating tale of heroic adventure.

The British dirigible R34, with Major G.H.
Scott in command, left East Fortune, Scotland, on the 2d of July, and arrived at Mineola, New York, on the sixth.