“EXCELLENT TONIC”
LEARNING TO FLY AT SEVENTY-FIVE LONDON, August 4. Sir Horace Plunkett, the noted Irish statesman, is learning to fly at the age of seventy-five. He is a pupil at the Brooldands flying school. “My friend, Bernard Shaw, suggests that it an adventurous, agreeable, and not too obvious method of committing suit'd©;” Sir Horace told the ‘Daily Mad,’ “ but .1 feel safer in .the air than in a taxicab in London. I find the lessons an excellent tonic.”. His instructor says that ho has the makings of, a good pilot. Owing to an error in a news agency cablegram, Sir Horace was reported dead on January I. 1920, and he had the unusual experience of reading his obituary; notices in the British and Irish Press.
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Evening Star, Issue 20263, 26 August 1929, Page 3
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