PAGEANT AT HENDON
WIRELESS TELEPHONY DIRECTING AEROPLANES Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, June 28. The feature of the Hendon pageant was the testing by King George of the, wonders of wireless telephony. He ordered the squadron to alter its course fifteen points outward. The message was broadcasted and so was heard in all the enclosures. The, pilots turned instantly,—A. and N.Z. Cable. A WONDERFUL SPECTACLE. LONDON, June 27. A hundred Thousand people witnessed the air pageant at Hendon in the presence of the King and Queen. Several new types of machines, widely varying in house power, demonstrated their uses as fast scouts and troop carriers. Hugo bombers and aerial ambulances performed innumerable manoeuvres, including looping and spiral nose-diving to within_ a few feet of the ground. The use of wireless between the machines in the air demonstrated how aerial drill could be carried out by fomi squadrons of thirty-six machines.- —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18979, 29 June 1925, Page 5
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