Possible Clues:

• Hit the tarmac
• Arrived on shore or ground
• Arrived on shore or tarmac
• Perhaps not a board to make Ned confused when there's a boy around
• Owning great estates
• Upper-class type on seashore before pole attempt …
• Hit the runway
• Like some gentry brought down
• Brought in
• That one from estate to bring editor back down to earth