KING’S AIRMEN SONS

Grey River Argus, 6 September 1930, Page 9

KING’S AIRMEN SONS

| PRINCE GEORGE AS PUPIL. i I The King’s four sons —the Prince of j Wnles, the Duke of York, the Duke of I Gloucester, and Prince George —have j all learned, or are learning, to travel i by air. and to manage the controls of an airplane. All the King’s sons are horsemen. | and it is a well-established fact that j “good hands” for a horse are a great j ! assistance in learning to fly. ) Prince George is the fourth son to i take a keen personal interest in ily ing. [ Af a service aerodrome near London he jiatelv spent many hours receiving inJsiruciiou in a dual control airplane, ■tlu' pilot being Mr E. 11. Filden. A.k.C., I {of the Reserve of Air Force Officers, I who was recently appointed the Prince j iof Wales’s personal air pilot. The' I Prince makes good progress, ami will I, • soon be able not only 1<» take control j Lof the machine in the air. but to take, j off and land. i | 'l’l.e Duke of Gloucester is acquiring ' experience in the 'air in a dual control j machine, not with a view to becoming j a pilot, but in order to become accustomed to a method of travelling which, like his brothers, he adopts more and • more on account of the saving of time jin fulfilling numerous public engage- | merits. • The Duke of York, as an officer in | the Royal Air Force, learned to tly in dual-control machines, has flown solo, and has taken charge at every stage from taking off to landing.