Alcock, JW

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Alcock, JW

...He died when landing at his destination), followed by France's Roland Garros (1888-1918) who crossed the Mediterranean Sea (from Saint-Raphaël to Bizerte) in 1913. After World War I, aviators around the world turned their attention to the Atlantic Ocean, and in 1919, the British John William Alcock (1892-1919) and Arthur Whiten Brown (1886-1948) became the first aviators to cross the Mediterranean Sea nonstop (from Newfoundland to Ireland), and in 1927, American C. Lindbergh flew solo from New York to Paris, becoming an aviation hero from an unknown postal pilot. Furthermore, airplanes conquered the South Pacific (1928), the North Pacific (1931), the Arctic (1926), and the Antarctic (1929), and by the early 1930s, airplane tracks had covered every part of the Earth.

From St. John's

…In 1901, G. Marconi was the first to receive a wireless telegraph signal across the Atlantic Ocean, and there is a museum commemorating this. In 1919, British aviator John William Alcock (1892-1919) and A.W. Brown made a successful transatlantic flight from here. [Masai Yasuo] …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Alcock, JW" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…目的地に着陸の際墜落死亡),13年,フランスのガロスRoland Garros(1888‐1918)の地中海横断(サンラファエル~ビゼルト間)と続く。第1次世界大戦後,世界の飛行家の目は大西洋に向けられ,19年,イギリスのアルコックJohn William Alcock(1892‐1919)およびブラウンArthur Whiten Brown(1886‐1948)は初めて無着陸横断(ニューファンドランド~アイルランド間)に成功,27年にはアメリカのC.リンドバーグはニューヨーク~パリ間を単独で飛んで,無名の郵便飛行士から一躍空の英雄となった。さらに南太平洋(1928),北太平洋(1931),北極(1926),南極(1929)なども飛行機によって征服され,1930年代前半までには,飛行機の航跡は地球上のすべての部分をおおいつくした。…

【セント・ジョンズ】より

…1901年にG.マルコーニが,大西洋を越えた無線電信を最初に受信した所であり,それを記念する博物館がある。また19年にはイギリスの飛行士オールコックJohn William Alcock(1892‐1919)がA.W.ブラウンとともにここから大西洋横断飛行を成功させた。【正井 泰夫】。…

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