BY AIR LINER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20103, 23 March 1928, Page 7

BY AIR LINER

AMANULLAH THRILLED Changing Panorama of London Watched by King VISITS TO BAILWAY WORKS. (By Telegraph—Per Pre** Assn.—Copyright.) (By Radio)) RUGBY, March 21. King Amanullah of Afghaniston hai what be described as the “greatest thrill which the West had given me,” when he flew over London to-day. The machine in which he flew was an Armstrong-Bid-ey-Argosy, the largest air liner in the world, a 20-seater used by Imperial Airways on the crossChannel services. Captain Rogers whs the pilot, the party including Bir Samuel Hoare (Secretary for Air), Vice-Marshal Brancker, Sir Francis IL;mpi;.cys (British Minister at Kabul) and members of the King’s suite. There were 17 passengers in addition to tho pilot, mechanic, and steward. King Amanullah eagerly watched (ho constantly changing panorama below. On his head was a pair of earphones, by means of which he could hear the wireless conversation being carried on between Croydon aerodrome and tha pilot. The King, through an interpreter, declared that one of the things that pleased him most was to see Buckingham Palace and its grounds as he flew overhead. The air liner flew at a height of about 2500 feet. After passing ovex the Crystal Palace it went down the Thames to the Tower of London, then over Bt. Paul’s Cathedral, Buckingham Palace, and Hyde Park. Crossing “fie Thames on the return journey ov«i Vauxhall Bridge, a perfect landing wax made. After the flight a Handley-Page ma chine also took up the remainder <»1 King Amanullah’s suite King Amanullah Juft London this af* ternoon for Swindon, when? he went over the Great Western Railway Company’s works-