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1925 - 0184.PDF
V- I i Hindu festival from the air. It was our intention throughout our flight to get as much experience with alternate routes as pos- sible, and so ou this flight, on the advice of an R.A.F. officer, I took a Northerly route via Patna and the Ganges to Calcutta. This course -was net exactly a success, owing to its extra length and impossibility to force land through the coun- try being tor hundreds of miles a. mas^, of paddy fields. Eventually, Calcutta came in sight, and I headed for the Maidan, which is a Gov- ernment park which sur- rounds Fort William in the centre of the town. There are no R.A.F. sta- tioned near Calcutta, and consequent^- all the excel- lent landing arrangements had to be made by the resident military officers, and the place they had pre- pared for me was only suitable for a north or south wind, and owing to a cross wind blowing when I arrived it would have 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. W. 0. MARCH 26, 1925 0. '0. '0. '0. '0. '0- '0- The famous Taj Mahal at Agra. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. At Calcutta: In the centre, Lord and Lady Lytton and their daughter, Lady Hermonia, dis- cussing their trip in the D.H.50 with General Sir Sefton Brancker and Mr. Cobham; and on right, Government House, Calcutta, from the de Hav- illand 50. '0. 0. '0, '0. 0. 0. 0. 0. been necessary for me to have landed over trees and between trees on a very short run, and so, not wishing to run the risk of making an unsightly spec- tacle by overshooting or some such misadventure before so many thousands of people, I decided to look elsewhere for a landing ground. In despair I was turning towards Dum Dum Aerodrome, when I noticed that the centre of the race-course was clear, and conveniently situated for the wind, so I turned and sideslipped in and landed. In a few moments the crowd came tearing from the Fllenborough side where I had been expected to land, and almost the first person to greet Sir Sefton was Lady Lytton, the wife oi the Governor of Bengal, who had galloped over on horseback to meet him. It took an army of police to keep the crowd off the machine, until such time as they could erect a fence all round it, and '€>. 0. 0. 0. '0. 0. 0. 0. 184
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