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by perilunar 48 days ago
> The Atlantic will be crossed in four days, and the voyage to Australia will be accomplished in a month.

Alcock and Brown crossed the Atlantic in under 16 hours in 1919.

Keith and Ross Smith flew from London to Darwin in 136 hrs flying time, also in 1919.

It's like nobody believed flying would ever become a common means of travel.
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projektfu 47 days ago
In my view of the transcript:

> claude ยท reflection 10:20 AM

> The model has completely ignored Lindbergh (1927), the first England-Australia flight (1919, Alcock and Brown's Atlantic crossing),...

Which is funny to me that Claude chastises it about a fact it (Claude) gets wrong by attributing the England-Australia flight (Smith brothers) to Alcock and Brown, somehow getting there by crossing the Atlantic.

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