Hi all,
As a young lad I remember seeing the Alcock & Brown statue at Manchester airport, I also used to walk to school through Southern Cemetery and would often stop and take a poignant look at the headstone to Sir John Alcock, I didn't realise until I read the very good piece on the bbc news site that their actual crossing of the Atlantic was a hundred years ago today and so this prompted me to start this thread into why Manchester and its airport have no official memorial/celebration of these two pioneering Manchester aviators?
I find it quite saddening that there isn't much recognition of there achievement.
As a young lad I remember seeing the Alcock & Brown statue at Manchester airport, I also used to walk to school through Southern Cemetery and would often stop and take a poignant look at the headstone to Sir John Alcock, I didn't realise until I read the very good piece on the bbc news site that their actual crossing of the Atlantic was a hundred years ago today and so this prompted me to start this thread into why Manchester and its airport have no official memorial/celebration of these two pioneering Manchester aviators?
I find it quite saddening that there isn't much recognition of there achievement.