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Toggle Prize winners subsection. 4.1 London to New York. ... The Daily Mail Trans-Atlantic Air Race was a two-way race between London, UK and New York City, ...
The newspaper would stipulate the amount of a prize for the first aviators to perform a particular task in aviation or to the winner of an aviation race or event. The most famous prizes were the £1,000 for the first cross-channel flight awarded to Louis Blériot in 1909 and the £10,000 given in 1919 to Alcock and Brown for the first non-stop ...
The final step in the quest for trans-Atlantic speed was the Concorde, which set a record in 1996 of a second under two hours 53 minutes, at an average speed of 1250 mph (Mach 1.9), [22] but by this time airlines were aware that cost and comfort were more important to passengers than speed, and the emphasis shifted to aircraft like the Boeing ...
May 4–11 – The Daily Mail Transatlantic Air Race commemorates the 50th anniversary of Alcock and Brown's crossing. It is won by a Royal Navy F-4 Phantom II, taking 4 hours 47 minutes to fly from Floyd Bennett Field in New York City to Wisley Airfield near London. [52] [53]
The Transatlantic Trophy (initially called Anglo-American Match Races) was an annual series of motorcycle races between the United Kingdom and America held from 1971 to 1988 and again in 1991. They were mostly held over the Easter weekend at Brands Hatch , Mallory Park and Oulton Park , although some races were held at Donington Park and ...
Thereafter the competition lapsed due to the rapid rise of transatlantic air travel, and United States herself was laid up in 1969. In 1985 British entrepreneur Richard Branson's attempt to break the United States ' s record and win the Blue Riband led to the building of Virgin Atlantic Challenger, which failed in a crossing in July of that year.
Péter Besenyei – winner of the inaugural series in 2003 – during the Chiba leg of the 2015 championship. The Red Bull Air Race World Championship (formerly known as the Red Bull Air Race), established in 2003 and created by Red Bull GmbH, was an international series of air races in which entrants compete to navigate a challenging obstacle course in the fastest time.
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