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1933 - 0015.PDF
JULY 6, 1933 ADVERTISEMENTS. FLIGHT The Royal part/ leaving the Aurora. ' IN A BRITISH LINER BRUSSELS, FRIDAY. From our Special Correspondent. AN event believed to be unique in annals of the air took place this afternoon, when four members of a Royal Family flew together in an aeroplane. They were the King and Queen of the Belgians and the Duke and Duchess of Brabant, and their flight was from Brussels to Ant werp and back in the Aurora, the newest of the Imperial Airways machines, which is to be used on the Australian service. King Albert has flown in every previous type of Imperial Airways machine, and it was in response to his wish that the Aurora came from London to Brussels to-day. ABSENCE OF NOISE. All the royal fliers were thoroughly delighted with the trip, which lasted nearly an hour. From one of their suite I learn that they moved repeatedly from window to window, pointing out places of interest. They were all agreeably surprised at the steadiness of the aeroplane, while the King remarked on the almost complete absence of noise. The Queen said that she had never realised that Antwerp was so big a city until she saw it this afternoon from the British Air Liner. The drawing-room arrangements of the passenger cabin, which has accommodation for nine persons, made a special appeal to the Queen and the Duchess. Extracts from the "Daily Mail", June 10th, 1933. t .. (i I & 1 The Aurora is one of the fleet of four-engined monoplanes designed and built for Messrs. Imperial Airways Limited, by ir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Ltd. Works and Aerodrome : Whitley, Coventry. BP282C **~ ^^CV •-••'J,*~Bv^ •.~-'~vvs •"'"'"'V*. ^"**v V1 fi /A Save lime by using the Air Mail. ix
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