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1928. First East-West Transatlantic Flight - A Rare Photograph, Autographed by The Three Aviators: Fitzmaurice, Koehl and Von Huenefeld. sepia photograph, framed 20 by 25cm., 8 by 10in. On 12 April 1928 two Germans, Baron von Huenefeld and Captain Köhl with Commandant James FitzMaurice, officer commanding the Irish Air Corps, left Baldonnel Aerodrome, in a Junkers aircraft named Bremen, and flew to Greenly Island, Canada, (about 1,200 miles from New York) arriving on April 14, 1928, after a flight fraught with difficult conditions and compass problems. This was the first East to West Transatlantic flight, a far more difficult crossing, against the winds, than the West to East flights by Alcock and Brown and Lindbergh, and the crew was greeted with acclaim in Canada, USA, Ireland and Germany as heroes of their time, as indeed they were, having opened up the aerial route to North America.
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