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Alcock and Brown landed their aircraft in a bog near Clifden

US Naval aviation began with aviator Glenn Curtiss who was contracted by the US Government to fly aircraft from land bases and from aboard ships at sea

The aircraft was operated by the RNZAF right up to 1967

US Navy insignia

This is the RAFs most famous heavy bomber from WW2

Hawker - Long-sleeve T-shirt Vampire Alcock and Brown landed theirHawker Aircraft As Sopwith Aircraft went bankrupt Sopwith, test pilot Harry Hawker and Tommy Sopwith formed H. G. Hawker Engineering in 1920, becoming Hawker Aircraft Limited in 1933. The company acquired Gloster Aircraft, Armstrong Siddeley and Armstrong Whitworth to become Hawker Siddeley. Avro was eventually included in this group of companies. Today the Hawker brand still exists within the American company Raytheon that produces business jets.