Alcock and Brown flew the Atlantic nonstop in 1919, eight years before Lindbergh

In June 1919, British aviators John Alcock and Arthur Brown flew a modified WWI bomber nonstop from Newfoundland to Ireland in just over 16 hours, fighting fog, ice and a stalled engine along the way. Mistaking a bog for a smooth green field, they crash-landed nose-first into Derrygimlagh Bog, unhurt. The flight won them a £10,000 Daily Mail prize and knighthoods from King George V within the week.

— Brendan Lynch, Yesterday We Were in America: Alcock and Brown, First to Fly the Atlantic Non-Stop — Haynes Publishing, 2009
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