KING’S AIRMEN SONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1052, 16 August 1930, Page 28

KING’S AIRMEN SONS

PRINCE GEORGE AS PUPIL The King's four sons—the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Duke of Gloucester, and Prince George—have all learned, or are learning, to travel by air, and to manage the controls of an airplane. All the King's sons are horsemen, and it is a •well-established fact that “good hands” for a horse are a great assistance in learning to fly. Prince George is the fourth son to take a keen personal interest in flying. At a service airdrome near London he has lately spent many hours receiving instruction in a dual-control airplane, the pilot usually being Mr. B. H. Pilden. A.F.C., of the Reserve of Air Force Officers, who was recently appointed the Prince of Wales’s personal air pilot. The Prince makes good progress, and will soon be able not only to control the machine in the air. but to take off and land. The Duke of Gloucester is acquiring experience in the air in a dualcontrol machine, not with a view to becoming a pilot, but in order to become accustomed to a method of travelling which, like his brothers, he adopts more and more an account of the saving of time in fulfilling numerous public engagements. The Duke of York, as an afficer in the Royal Air Force, learned to fly in dual-control machines, has flown solo, and has taken charge at every stage from taking off to landing.