First Atlantic Crossing, First Jet Lag
In 1919 John Alcock and Arthur Brown made the first flight across the Atlantic. And experienced the first case of jet lag.
In November Maureen and I drove from Galway to Clifden on the west coast of Ireland. Just north of Ballconneely, 4km south of Clifden, we stopped to look at the monument to that historic flight. Then we drove off the road 2km to Derrygimlagh Moor where they landed rather messily in a bog.
click here for more on that historic flight, the discovery of jet lag and the primitive plane they flew across the Atlantic:
Once while Travelling: The Lonely Planet Story