When John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown crash-landed into a Connemara bog almost a century ago, it was a Cork-born journalist who broke the news of their non-stop transatlantic flight to the rest of the world.

Turbot Island, Co Galway, has a very important place in aviation history being the first sighted land for the very first trans-Atlantic flight by John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown on June 14 and 15, 1919.

NINETY years ago this summer, British aviators John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown landed down in Connemara’s bogs, at Clifden, having completed the first non-stop Transatlantic flight of nearly 1,900 miles, in around 16 hours.

WORLD-FAMOUS American adventurer Steve Fossett tonight paid tribute to the two men who had inspired his transatlantic flight in a replica World War one bi-plane.

World-famous American adventurer Steve Fossett is hoping to land his vintage aircraft on a golf course in Ireland today in a recreation of an historic transatlantic flight.