Sidelined heroes
Looking somewhat androgenous from this angle are Messrs. John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown, who in 1919 won the Daily Mail's prize of £10,000 for the first successful non-stop transatlantic flight. The commemorative statue was erected in 1954 and originally stood in pride of place at the entrance to London Airport, as it was then known. Today's title of London Heathrow Airport was adopted some years later, in 1966.
With the closure of Terminal 2 and the demolition of the 1955 Europa Building where Alcock & Brown once stood, the statue has been moved out of the wider public eye and now stands outside a small British Airports Authority museum on a remote site by the north runway. Few LHR passengers are likely to see it.
Sidelined heroes
Looking somewhat androgenous from this angle are Messrs. John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown, who in 1919 won the Daily Mail's prize of £10,000 for the first successful non-stop transatlantic flight. The commemorative statue was erected in 1954 and originally stood in pride of place at the entrance to London Airport, as it was then known. Today's title of London Heathrow Airport was adopted some years later, in 1966.
With the closure of Terminal 2 and the demolition of the 1955 Europa Building where Alcock & Brown once stood, the statue has been moved out of the wider public eye and now stands outside a small British Airports Authority museum on a remote site by the north runway. Few LHR passengers are likely to see it.