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Arthur Whitten Brown was a British navigator and aviator who is best known for his role in the first successful transatlantic flight in 1919. He was born on 23 July 1886 in Glasgow, Scotland, to a family of Scottish descent.
Brown was educated at the Glasgow Academy and the Royal Technical College. He joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1915 and served as a navigator in the First World War. After the war, he joined the Royal Air Force and was assigned to the Air Ministry.
In 1919, Brown was chosen to be the navigator for the first successful transatlantic flight, which was piloted by John Alcock. The flight, which took place from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Ireland, lasted 16 hours and 27 minutes. Brown and Alcock were awarded the Order of the British Empire for their achievement.
Brown continued to serve in the Royal Air Force until his retirement in 1929. He died on 13 April 1948 in London, England.
Throughout his life, Brown was an advocate for the advancement of aviation technology. He was a founding member of the Royal Aero Club and was instrumental in the development of the first air navigation system. He was also a member of the Royal Air Force Association and the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund.
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23 July 1886 |
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23 July |
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Glasgow, Scotland |
| Date of death |
October 4, 1948 |
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Swansea, Wales |
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United Kingdom |
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Brown's widow died on 1 May 1952, aged 56, at Brunswick Nursing Home, Fyfnone, Swansea. Probate was dated 9 June 1952 and left effects of £4,342 6s 11d to an Eileen Howard Kennedy, spinster.
By 1948 Brown's health had again deteriorated, although he was allowed to undertake restricted duties as general manager for Metropolitan-Vickers at the Wind Street offices.
Brown's only son, Arthur (known as Buster), was killed on the night of 5/6 June 1944, aged 22, while serving with the RAF as a Flight Lieutenant. His aircraft, a de Havilland Mosquito VI NT122, of 605 Squadron, crashed in the Netherlands. Buster was buried at the general cemetery in Hoorn, the town closest to the crash. The death of his only son affected Brown badly.
During World War II Brown served in the Home Guard as a Lieutenant-Colonel before resigning his commission in July 1941, rejoining the RAF and working in RAF Training Command as a pilot officer dealing with navigation. His health deteriorated and by mid-1943 he had to resign from the RAFVR and give up his Air Training Corps commitments on medical advice.
Later he worked for Metropolitan-Vickers (MetroVick), the company that had once been British Westinghouse. In 1923 he was appointed chief representative for Metropolitan-Vickers in the Swansea area.
The flight from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Connemara, Ireland, took place on 14 June 1919. They departed St John's at 1.45 pm local time, and landed in Derrygimla bog 16 hours and 12 minutes later after flying 1,980 miles (3,168 km). The flight was made in a modified Vickers Vimy bomber, and won a £10,000 prize offered by London's Daily Mail newspaper for the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic. A few days after the flight both Brown and Alcock were honoured with a reception at Windsor Castle during which King George V invested them with their insignia as Knights Commanders of the Order of the British Empire.
Brown's aircraft was shot down by anti-aircraft fire over Vendin-le-Vieil in France while on artillery observation duties. He was sent back to England to recuperate but returned only to be shot down again, this time with a punctured fuel tank, near Bapaume in B.E.2c (number 2673) on a reconnaissance flight on 10 November 1915. Brown and his pilot, 2nd Lt. H. W. Medlicott, were captured by the Germans. (In June 1918 Medlicott was shot by the Germans while attempting to escape for the fourteenth time). Later interned in Switzerland, Brown was repatriated in September 1917.
Brown began his career in engineering before the outbreak of World War I and undertook an apprenticeship with British Westinghouse in Manchester. In 1914, he enlisted in the ranks of the University and Public Schools Brigade (UPS) for which he had to take out British citizenship. The ranks of the UPS were full of potential officers and Brown was one of those who sought a commission to become a Second Lieutenant in the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion of the Manchester Regiment. After service in France, Brown was seconded to 2 Squadron Royal Flying Corps as an observer.
Arthur Whitten Brown was born on July 23, 1886 in Glasgow, Scotland.
