Article created by: Ilona Baliūnaitė
At the beginning of the 20th century, if you wanted to cross the Atlantic, you bought a trip on a ship. But after British aviators John Alcock and Arthur Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic flight in June 1919, that began to change. Finally, on the 11th of October 1928, Hugo Eckener, commanding the Graf Zeppelin airship as part of DELAG’s operations, launched the first non-stop transatlantic passenger flights.
