FLIGHT THROUGH TEMPEST TO SEE FIGHT IN PARIS
| Reed. 10 a.m. LONDON, Monday. When Saturday’s gale suspended the boat and airplane services across the Channel, Mr. A. Butler, chairman of the De Havilland Company, and Mr. Nigel Norman, a director of the airport, determined to occupy ring-side meats at the Carnera-Stribling fight at Paris, which they had booked for themselves and their wives. They set forth in their own Gipsy Moth planes in the midst of the rain-laden tempest, and reached Paris with their wives at dinner time. Terrific bumps shook the planes and would have thrown the occupants from their seats had they not been strapped In. They were the only aerial Channel-croasers on Saturday. Queen Ena of Spain, who said she could not break her promise to attend a charity fete at Madrid, insisted on crossing the Channel in a special boat when the DoverCalaie service was cancelled owing to the storm.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 842, 10 December 1929, Page 1
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