BELGIAN KING
A FLY IN AN AUTOGYRO. Australian Press Association.) (Received 12.5 p.m.) BRUSSELS, May 3. Albert, King of the Belgians, is the first Monarch, in history to venture on a flight in a dangerous looking autogyro “Windmill”, in which Lord Stonehaven to-day made a surprise flight to Belgium. When he landed, King Albert was most excited and grasping Lord Stonehaven s hand cried “what a wonderful invention. I would like a flight- myself.”
The Queen nervously intervened—“lt’s not safe,” but tlie King was not deterred and borrowing Lord Stonehaven’s helmet, (old the pjlot to take him up to see Brussels from the uir, The machine returned in ten minutes landing without taxiing. The pilot de. glaring the machine was very safe. Nobody had succeeded in killing himself in it since it was invented in 1925.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 May 1931, Page 5
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