AIR FORCE COLLEGE
OPENING BY PRINCE OF WALES. LINES SIMILAR TO SANDHURST. British Wireless. Rugby, Oct. 11. The Prince of Wales, wearing the uniform of an air marshal, flew from London to Cranwell (Lincolnshire) to open the Royal Air Force College founded on the lines of Sandhurst and Woolwich. The first commandant of the college is Air Vice-Marshal Longcroft, who was the pilot when the Prince had his first flight 16 years ago. In an address to the cadets the Prince said: “You have joined a great service and though the Royal Air Force is a junior service it, along with the Navy and Army, makes for that confidence which not only throughout the Empire but throughout the world is of vital importance and will continue to be of vital importance until the make-up of the world changes very radically.” The Prince made a tour of inspection, afterwards flying back to London.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1934, Page 7
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