Scotland’s National Museum of Flight, located in the former Royal Air Force base of East Fortune, was the departure point for the first return flight across the Atlantic. The R34 airship was the first to complete an east-west flight across this ocean, as earlier attempts (both with scales and non-stop), succeeded by flying west-east, from North America to Europe. R34 was a rigid airship, unlike the airplane flown by Alcock and Brown used for the first non-stop transatlantic flight a few weeks before R34’s. Having departed from East Fortune on…
