John Alcock, captain in the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force (died 1919)

John Alcock (RAF officer)

British aviator (1892–1919)

Captain Sir John William Alcock was a British Royal Navy and later Royal Air Force officer who, with navigator Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, piloted the first non-stop transatlantic flight from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, Ireland in June 1919. He died in a flying…