PRINCE’S FLIGHTS

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 221, 14 June 1930, Page 27

PRINCE’S FLIGHTS

Service to Aviation Dominion Special Service. London, May 1. The journey which ended in Windsor Great Park is the eighth long-dis-tance tour accomplished by the Prince of Wales since the war, and probably it has been the one most to his taste. The visits to Australia, New Zealand, India, Japan, West and South Africa, and South America had an environment of ceremonial. There was none of that in his hunting trip to Central and East Africa. For weeks the Prince lived with big game hunters in all the freedom of camp life, which now seems to be rivalling in his affections the lure of his Canadian ranch.

The Prince has set many precedents in his time. He has now’two speed-re-cords In travelling to hi§ credit —the dash Home from Dar-es-Salem in December, 1928, when British cruisers, and the ItaUan, Swiss, and French railways co-operated in hastening his journey; and this week’s flight from Marseilles to Le Bourget. Warship, train, and aeroplane have aU shown their paces when the Prince is on board, and he can easily lay claim to the distinction of being the fastest Royal traveller the world has ever known.

The Prince’s example in choosing air travel whenever he can is certain to render great service ( -to amateur flying. It might. have been thought that the flight from Marseilles would have been a'severe physical strain—the machine must have flown between 700 and 750 miles without any long halts—but the Prince seems to have been quite fresh when he arrived at Windsor.