Background
Arthur Whitten Brown was born on July 23, 1886 in Glasgow to American parents.
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Arthur Whitten Brown was born on July 23, 1886 in Glasgow to American parents.
He was educated in Manchester, England, and then served an apprenticeship with the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company of Manchester.
In 1914 he enlisted in the British army and the following year obtained a transfer to the Royal Flying Corps as an observer. He was shot down over enemy territory and spent 18 months as a prisoner of war in Germany. After his repatriation in 1917 he was employed in the Ministry of Munitions on production of airplane engines. In 1919 he met John William Alcock, a pilot who was preparing to fly across the Atlantic in an attempt to win the prize of £10, 000p offered by the London Daily Mail. Brown joined him as navigator. They took off from St. John's, Newfoundland, on June 14, 1919, in a twin-engine Vickers-Vimy biplane; 16 hours and 12 minutes later they landed in Clifden, Ireland, the first men to fly nonstop from America to Europe. Sir Arthur died on October 4, 1948.
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