From a wind-scoured dune to a factory airstrip on the Baltic, every stop here is a patch of otherwise ordinary ground where an aircraft did something no aircraft had ever managed before.
Orville managed 120 feet in 12 seconds on the first attempt; the fourth try of the day carried Wilbur 852 feet in 59 seconds. The telegram sent home from the weather station that afternoon came through with the 59 seconds clipped to 57 and the sender's name garbled into 'Orevelle'.
Alcock and Brown hauled their Vickers Vimy off Lester's Field on 14 June 1919. Newfoundland was then a dominion in its own right, and would not join Canada until 1949.
At 8:40 on 15 June 1919 Alcock and Brown mistook Derrygimlagh bog for a green field and buried the Vimy's nose in the peat — 3,040 km non-stop in 15 hours 57 minutes, with the first sack of transatlantic airmail aboard.
Ross and Keith Smith set their Vimy down at Fannie Bay on the afternoon of 10 December 1919, 27 days and 20 hours out of Hounslow, winning the Australian government's £10,000 prize. The crew read the aircraft's registration, G-EAOU, as 'God 'Elp All Of Us'.
Erich Warsitz flew the Heinkel He 178 off the company's Marienehe airfield here on 27 August 1939 — six minutes aloft, and the first flight ever made by a turbojet aircraft. The air ministry was unimpressed; the prototype went to a Berlin museum and was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1943.
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