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b'Soon after the end of the First World War, Britain\\u2019s aircraft manufacturers\\u2019 minds were drawn back to a \\xa310,000 prize for the first to fly an aeroplane across the Atlantic Ocean. Join Peter Elliott & David Broughton as they take us into the Vickers Vimy cockpits with pilot John Alcock and navigator Arthur Whitten Brown as they race to be the first to leave Newfoundland, fly and navigate across nearly two thousand miles of sea and finally set foot on European soil. \\n\\nPeter Elliott & David Broughton addressed a joint seminar of the Royal Aeronautical Society\\u2019s Historical Group & the Royal Institute of Navigation on 6 July 2009. The podcast was edited by Eur Ing Mike Stanberry FRAeS.'