Word: khartum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Royal Escape. Nervous Britons who frown upon the hardy diversions of their Prince of Wales were chilled last week by the crash of a Royal Air Force plane which had just carried the Prince from Khartum to Cairo, on his way home from South Africa. A flying officer and an aircraftsman (pilot and copilot) were killed. Shocked, Edward of Wales was not unnerved. Well aware of the flying tradition that prescribes the "army cure"* he announced he was impatient to get home and wanted his personal pilot to pick him up at Marseilles. British airmen applauded. Pilot and an escort...