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JUNE 5, 1919 " Flight " Copyright Hawker's salved Sop with machine on the roof of Selfridge's, Oxford Street Only two"7destroyers were sighted, and at n o'clock the machine was over Brest, and met a head wind across the Channel. Plymouth was sighted at twelve minutes past one, and the N.C. 4 missed the three F. 2A flying-boats which had been sent out by the R.A.F. to meet them. The N.C. 4 crossed the breakwater at an altitude of about 15,000 ft., circled round Drake's Island, made a spiral descent opposite the Citadel, and settled on the water at 1.26 p.m., being greeted by^a storm of cheering and the sounding of every siren and whistle within range. As soon as the machine was moored the officers and crew of the N.C. 4 were taken off by an American pinnace to the U.S. flagship Rochester, where they met Rear-Admiral Plunkett of the U.S. Navy, and the officers and crews of the N.C. 1 and N.C. 3, and a number of British Naval and Air Force officers. They were wel comed to England by the Mayor and Corporation of Ply mouth ; later in the afternoon, when they went ashore,[they were led in procession to the Grand Hotel, where Admiral Cecil Thursby welcomed the men of the N.C. 4 on behalf of the Navy, and Col. Shepherd on behalf of the Air Force. The King, immediately he heard of the N.C. 4's arrival, ! r 1 0 * 10* * •• %>'/"" m Ik *? * m **M 1 * P S * \ - s m ." HO- ™ ^f $ *Wt w lUP %•' -J-*''--, '||| • •;.• '. . •; .,...', ..•''-' V : • ,* * * "25 Jfr 1m~ »T «r * *•' » ^^ ^Sf* 3^ H% #•>••".' | ' ; — :«1^ *fr > • . l ss ss s " Flight " Copyright. How would you like to be in this little simmering mass ? A snap inside King's Cross Station upon the arrival in London last week of Mr. Hawker and Commander Mac kenzie-Grieve, as seen from the top of the railway coach in which the aviators tra velled. Some of the happy throng look as if they had taken to floating, to ob tain a breather S 5s ^ Si S % % % 739
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