Nigel Jones
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140 appearances
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 2d ago
Nigel Jones’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Not many people survived an aircraft crash.
So there was a
I think that should be emphasised as well.
Incredibly courageous and brave, but careful as well.
When he got into a car, he always checked everything, the fuel, every button he pushed and pressed, 'cause he couldn't get out of the habit.
He did that every time he got into an aircraft.
He was very cautious, but courageous at the same time.
An interesting combination.
It should be remembered, and it's often forgotten, that he wasn't the first man to fly across the Atlantic.
That on the belonged to a couple of Englishmen, ex-wartime aviators called Orcock and Brown, and they flew across in a large bomber, a Vickers Vimy, it was called, a very cumbersome and ugly looking aircraft.
They started their flight in Newfoundland and they flew and landed in a bog in Ireland.
He was courageous and adventurous.
I don't think he needed the money, but he wanted to be the one to do that.
He was egotistical, there's no doubt about that.
But he saw it as a technical challenge, you know, was it actually technically possible to stay in the air for that long?
That was a hell of a challenge.
That was a hell of a thing to do.
Limberg was in the air for thirty-three hours, not stopped, alone in this tiny little monoplane.
He wrote a book about it, and no one has ever described it better than him.
It's the loneliness and the fact that many times he was flying blind, flying navigational instruments were in their infancy.
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