Plane to recreate historic Atlantic flight

The 75th anniversary of the first east-west crossing of the Atlantic by air will be marked this weekend by a repeat flight in a modern-day propeller aircraft.

The Bremen, a low-wing German-built Junkers monoplane, took off from the Casement Aerodrome at Baldonnel, near Dublin, just nine years after the first air transit from the United States – by Britons John Alcock and Arthur Brown, whose aircraft landed on a bog at Clifden, in the Connemara area of Co Galway, in June 1919.