IMPERIAL AIRWAYS GAZETTE December 1932 Number 52, Vol. 4 Extracts from the paper published by Imperial Airways
	ROYAL FLIGHTS BY IMPERIAL AIRWAYS No greater tribute could be paid to the comfort and reliability of aerial travel than the use which members of the various Royal families are now making of the regular air services. Readers of the IMPERIAL AIRWAYS GAZETTE will remember that the Prince of Wales and Prince George have, in the last few months, flown twice in Heracles and once in Satyrus (one of the flying-boats of the Scipio class). More recently still several members of reigning European families have arrived at Croydon by air. These have included Princess Ingrid of Sweden, who flew in the Imperial Airways air-liner City of Manchester from Brussels on one of her frequent visits to London. Shortly afterwards the Crown Prince of Norway, accompanied by the Crown Princess, also flew from Brussels to London in an aeroplane of S.A.B.E.N.A. (the Belgian Air Lines), for whom Imperial Airways acts as General Agent in Great Britain.
	IMPERIAL AIRWAYS' YOUNGEST PASSENGERS Travel by Imperial Airways is rapidly becoming recognised as the best method of travel for children owing to the shortness of the time taken, to the comfort of the aeroplanes, and to the lack of jolts, dust and heat. One of Imperial Airways' air-liners on the India route recently carried five children who were all travelling to Baghdad. The youngest of these was three weeks and the eldest four years old, and it is probably the first time that so many children, of such tender years, have travelled by air together. On this occasion the front cabin of the air liner (which was of the Hannibal class) was converted into a 'flying nursery' for the children and their mothers, and the aft cabin was left free for the remaining passengers. The children all enjoyed the flight and should have no excuse for being other than air-minded after such a pleasant early experience of flying. In striking contrast to this it is interesting to note that on one of the recent Africa services two of the passengers were over 70 years of age. This seems to show that, although it is best to begin young, it is never too late to become air-minded.
			The youngest of Imperial Airways' passengers disembarking at Baghdad, assisted by a member of the staff.