LOOKED DOWN ON LONDON

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 310, 22 March 1928, Page 15

LOOKED DOWN ON LONDON

FOURTH edition

NUU thfull GREATEST flight in air liner Wireless— Press Assn—Copyright j 12.5 p.m. HUG BY, Wed. j ' * kina Amanullah of Afghanis- * what he described as g reatest thrM, which the has given me.’ when he " e w over London to-day. The machine in which he flew was „ Armstrong-Siddeley Argosy, the air liner iu the world, a 29fer used bv the Imperial Airways '’ the cross-Channel services. Captain Rogers was the pilot, and h oassengers included Sir Samuel li,tare. Secretary ot Air; Air ViceS,nhal Sir Sefton Brancker, Sir ’■rancis Humphreys, British Minister Kabul, and members of the King’s lite There were 17 passengers, in addition, to the pilot, mechanic aud 1 Amanullah eagerly watched •he constantly changing panorama htlow- ° n his head was a pair <>c , r .phones, by means of which he e uld hear a wireless conversation wing carried on between Croydon Airdrome and the pilot. Tile King, trough an interpreter, declared that a of the things that pleased him m ost "-as to see Buckingham Palace i'nd its grounds as he flew overhead. The air liner flew at a height of about 2,500 feet. After passing over lie Crystal Palace it went down over he Thames to the Tower ot London, .‘hen over St. Pant's Cathedral, BuckPalace and Hyde Park, crossng the Thames on the return jour!,ej above Vauxhall Bridge. A perfect landing was made. After the flight a Handley-Pago machine also took up the remainder of King Amanullah’s suite. His Majesty left London this afternoon for Swindon, where he went over the Great Western Railway Company's works.—A. and N.Z.