Across the Atlantic with string and wood

SteveAstro writes "Steve Fossett together with Mark Rebholz and a recreation of the Vickers Vimy aircraft have just completed a re-enactment of the first transatlantic crossing by a piston engined aircraft by Alcock and Brown in June 1919. The team, with National Geographic Magazine. Fossett and his team are aiming to recreate the Triple Crown achieved by the Vimy, across the Atlantic, London-Cape Town and London - Australia"

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Elmer's Glue

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It's a little known fact that the plane this was modelled after was the world's first use of Elmer's white glue. It was used to glue wooden dowel and tenon joints together.