Word: channelled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...private airdrome and forbade his staff to divulge the names of any of the five people who flew away with him in his royal plane, piloted by modest Edward ("Mouse") Fielden, Captain of the King's Flight. It took the machine exactly 14 minutes to fly the English Channel. At an obscure French air field near Calais vacationing Edward VIII became "the first King of England ever to alight from the air on foreign soil...
Died. Louis Blériot, 64, first man to fly the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine; of heart disease; in Paris. In 1909, in a crude monoplane with a 28-h. p. motor, short, mustachioed Louis Blériot lumbered up from Les Barragues, buzzed across to Dover some 250 ft. above the water at an average speed of 45 m. p. h., won a $5,000 prize. Same year, after a serious crackup, he stopped flying, went into airplane manufacture. In 1927, when Lindbergh made the first solo flight from New York to Paris, Pioneer...
...first time since his accession, Edward VIII left Britain this week to inaugurate the $1,000,000 War memorial to 60,000 Canadian War dead at Vimy Ridge. The King crossed the Channel on the Admiralty yacht Enchantress escorted by a Canadian and a French destroyer. With utmost solemnity 20,000 persons witnessed the ceremony, heard an exchange of friendly and feeling speeches by King Edward and President Lebrun of France...
...Britannia, the greatest sailing yacht of the British Royal Family, was decked with blossoms, towed out into the Channel at night to foil photographers and sunk last week by order of King Edward VIII...
Luncheon was a family affair at Buckingham Palace. King Edward and Queen Mary there decided that when a British warship soon tows the Royal Yacht Britannia's hulk out to be sunk in the. Channel, this will be done in secret, lest yachtsmen and seafarers congregate unduly. The beloved yacht of King George, "The Sailor King," has now been stripped of its best things which were sold at auction in 344 lots last week at East Cowes...