PRINCE RETURNS HOME
’PLANE LANDS AT WINDSOR. [ British Official Wireless. ] RUGBY, April 25. The Prince of Wales landed at Windsor Great Park at 4 o’clock this afternon. The escorting aeroplanes passed off to the westward as the Prince’s Wapiti machine came to earth. As the Prince stepped out of the aeroplane he was greeted by Prince George. Only a few people witnessed his arrival.
Entering thg King’s car, which had come to meet him, the Prince drove to Fort Belverdere, 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 French officers, His Royal Highness was escorted by eight French army aeroplanes, in addition to the 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, which was piloted by Squadron-Leader Don, took the air liner route to Dover. It flew at a height of 6000 feet, while the escort flew at about 10,000 feet,
It is estimated that the Prince has travelled 18,000 miles since he left England on Janiiary 3 for his African tour.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 98, 28 April 1930, Page 7
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