Arthur Whitten Brown
Sir Arthur Whitten Brown KBE (23 July 1886 – 4 October 1948) was the navigator of the first successful non-stop transatlantic flight.
Read more about Arthur Whitten Brown: Biography, Transatlantic Flight, After Flight, Works
Famous quotes containing the words arthur and/or brown:
“I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper.”
—Eric Taylor, Leroux, and Arthur Lubin. Raoul Daubert (Edgar Barrier)
“His reversed body gracefully curved, his brown legs hoisted like a Tarentine sail, his joined ankles tacking, Van gripped with splayed hands the brow of gravity, and moved to and fro, veering and sidestepping, opening his mouth the wrong way, and blinking in the odd bilboquet fashion peculiar to eyelids in his abnormal position. Even more extraordinary than the variety and velocity of the movements he made in imitation of animal hind legs was the effortlessness of his stance.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)