FIRST ROYAL FLIGHT
KING ALBERT IN AUTOGIRO
BRUSSELS PROM ALOFT
Hutted Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received 4th May, 11 a.m.) BRUSSELS, 3rd May. Albert, King of the Belgians, is the first monarch in history to venture a flight in the dangerous-looking Autogiro, the "windmill 'plane." Lord Stonehavcn to-day made a surprise flight to Belgium in an Autogiro. When he landed King Albert was most excited and, grasping Lord Stonehaven's hand, cried: "What a wonderful invention! I would like Vi flight myself." The Queen nervously intervened: tw ; lt is not safej" but the King was not deterred. Borrowing Lord Stonehaven's helmet, he told die pi'&ot to take him up to see Brussels from the air. The machine returned in ten minutes, landing without the usuitl taxi-ing. T.be pilot declared the machine very safe. Nobody had succeeded in killing himself in it since it was invented, in 1925.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 103, 4 May 1931, Page 9
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146FIRST ROYAL FLIGHT Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 103, 4 May 1931, Page 9
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