ROMANCES OF THE AIR

Evening Star, Issue 21622, 18 January 1934, Page 1

ROMANCES OF THE AIR

LOVE AT A FLYING SCHOOL MATCH-MAKING RECORD Three amazing match-mating months in ; which dozens of engagements and marriages have been announced. This is the honeymooning record of the Airworks Flying School aat Heston, fifteen milesTrom London. For these three months, the ‘Sunday Chronicle’ recently stated, Cupid ‘has been playing havoc among them—and still is! “ Even more promising romances are in the offing,” said' an official of the school. _ “ We are watching their 'progress with interest. In additipn to the engagements and marriages among actual members, many love matches of outside people have begun or budded fit Heston, making about thirty in all.” Two of October’s important society ■ weddings had their origin at the flying school. Countess Resy de Bailleb Latour, who learned to fly at Heston, last summer, first attracted the attention of her husband, Mr , Harold Peake, while having her lessons there,Mr Peake is a pilot and private aero- • plane owner. They became engaged and married shortly afterwards. ' The second Society pair were Lord Willoughby de 'Broke and Miss Rachel Wrey. They became engaged in the course of a ■ flying tour ■of Germany, organised by Mr w. Lindsay Ererard,M.P.,’.which started from the romantic* , airport. Lord Willoughby do Broke, like .Mr. Peake, ,is pilot and owner of an .aeroplane, and his bridp also has a pilot’s certificate. '' Another romance of Heston is that of Miss Corise Rankin and Mr Cherry, of the Auxiliary Air Force. -At thensecond meeting these two arranged to fly together at Heston, .and are how; engaged. They intend to V have a fly- 1 ing honeymoon after their marriage. One,of the central figures in this school 'of romance is Mr Jackaman—« , pilot of the white monospar honeymoon aeroplane—who has probably, piloted more honeymoon couples than any other man. He piloted Prince Henry’s Equerry, Captain Brooke, from Heston, on his honeymoon. Prince Henry himself took f pictures of the. departure and escorted the machine to the coast. Mr Jackaman declines' to speak about his passengers —that is why he is so popular -as a honeymoon pilot. v Mi" Kathleen Horlick, the society beauty, took flying instruction at the Airworks School. Now' she is married to Mr Kenneth Wagg. She also left for her honeymoon in Mr Jackaman a aeroplane.