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Bertindak sebagai pilot, Kapten [[John Alcock]], mantan pilot [[Royal Naval Air Service]] dan Letnan [[Arthur Whitten Brown]], mantan anggota Royal Flying Corp, bertindak sebagai navigator penerbangan tersebut.<ref name="kapal"/>
Alcock (Pilot) dan Brown (navigator) terbang 1.890 mil (3.024 km) dengan kecepatan rata-rata 119 mph (190 km).<ref name="kapal"/> Total waktu penerbangan mereka adalah 16 jam 12 menit.<ref name="kapal"/> Sumber lain menyebutkan 16 jam 27 menit.<ref name="kapal2">{{en}} [http://www.aviation-history.com/vickers/vimy.htm Situs Web Aviation History:
Vickers Vimy F.B.27 yang dipergunakan dalam ekspedisi mengarungi Samudera Atlantik ini merupakan modifikasi Vickers IV.<ref name="kapal2"/> Pesawat tersebut bermesin dan bersayap ganda (''biplane''), yang memiliki ekor ganda pula, serta tempat duduk untuk tiga orang awak. <ref name="kapal"/> Pesawat yang dilengkapi dengan dua mesin Rolls Royce Eagle VIII dengan kekuatan 360 tenaga kuda tersebut dirancang untuk mengangkut sebuah bom berbobot 2.000 ton dan merupakan salah satu pesawat terbesar pada masanya.<ref name="kapal"/>
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==Pilot==
John Alcock lahir was born in 1892 at Seymour, Old Trafford. He first became interested in flying at the age of seventeen, when the science of aviation was still a new subject. During World War One Alcock became an experienced pilot, though he was eventually shot down during a bombing raid, and taken prisoner in Turkey. <ref name="kapal3">{{en}} [http://www.fi.edu/flight/long/index.html Situs Web The Franklin Institute: Long Flight/Vickers Vimy]</ref> After the war, Alcock wanted to continue his flying career and took up the challenge of attempting to be the first to fly directly across the Atlantic.<ref name="kapal3"/>
Arthur Whitten Brown was born in Glasgow in 1886.<ref name="kapal3"/> He began his career in engineering before the outbreak of the First World War. Like Alcock, Brown also became a prisoner of war, after being shot down over Germany. Once released and back in Britain, Brown continued to develop his aerial navigation skills. While visiting the engineering firm of Vickers he was asked if he would be the navigator for the proposed transatlantic flight, partnering John Alcock, who had already been chosen as pilot.<ref name="kapal3"/>
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