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Show Britain Learns King Will Not Give Up Habit of Flying LONDON (UR Despite all the fears about the safety of his royal person, King Edward has let it be known definitely that he has no intention of abandoning flying. When he flew to London from Sandringham the day after his father's death privy councillors shook their heads. It wouldn't do for him to go about risking his life that way, they reasoned. The new monarch was reported a day or two later to have promised prom-ised to curtail his aviation activities. activi-ties. But he kept his two private airplanes. Now word has emanated from Buckingham Palace that the King has ordered a new airdrome to be built at Windsor, not far from the family castle, as on alternative to the landing field at Heston which he has used heretofore. The new airdrome would accommodate ac-commodate a much larger type plane Ulan the king was accustomed accus-tomed to use when he was Prince of Wales. With the small ships the King could lake off from Smith's Lawn, which is only a short distance dis-tance from his country place at Fort Belvedere. When he purchased pur-chased a larger plan he was forced to abandon use of Smith's Lawn. His chief pilot then picked Heston as his headquarters. The king, it is reported, will travel by airplane only in cases of emergency or when he has to travel a long distance. |