Where's the Scottish celebration?
On the 2nd of July 1919, R34 (built at Inchinnan near Glasgow Airport) set off from East Fortune just a fortnight after Alcock and Brown's epic flight and reached New York four and a half days later on the 6th, thereby completing the first non-stop air crossing of the Atlantic from East to West.
As the British ground crew had anticipated a diversion to Boston, there was no one on the ground familiar with the R34.
Major John Edward Mannock Pritchard boldly stepped over the side by parachute to organise matters - thus becoming the first man to cross the Atlantic East to West non-stop!