PRINCE OF WALES HOME
18,000 MILES JOURNEY ENDS RETURN FROM AFRICA BY AIR. ESCORT BY FRENCH MACHINES. British Wireless. Rugby, April 25. The Prince of Wales landed in Windsor Great Park at 4 o’clock this afternoon. The escorting aeroplanes passed off westward as the Prince’s Wapiti machine came to earth. As the Prince stepped out of the aeroplane he was greeted by Prine. George. Only a few people witnessed his arrival. Entering the King’s car, which had come to meet him. the Prince drove to Fort Belvedere, his residence near Ascot, where the King and Queen awaited him. His Royal Highness looked bronzed and well. From Le Bourget, where he -lunched with the'French officers, His Royal Highness was escorted by eight’French army planes in addition to two British machines which had accompanied him from Marseilles. The French machines attended him to the three-mile limit off Calais, where nine British machines from Folkestone met him and flew with him across the Channel.
The Prince’s, machine was piloted by Squadron-Leader Don, who took the air liner route to Dover. It flew at a height of 6000 feet, while the escorts flew at about 16,000 feet. It is estimated'that the Prince has travelled 18,000 miles since he left England ori January 3 for his African tour.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 April 1930, Page 11
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