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R.A.F. COMET

Arrival On Saturday

Christchurch airport will be open on Sunday, May 5. to allow public inspection of the Royal Air Force Comet jetliner. Visitors to the airport will not be permitted to board the plane, but barriers will be erected not far distant to enable persons to get reasonably close and to take photographs if they wish. The Comet will arrive at Harewood on Saturday. It will be the first of its type to come to the South Island. While the Comet is in Christchurch it will be under a full security . guard. The guard will be provided by airmen made available by the Royal New Zealand Air Force station. Wigram. Next Monday, a demonstration flight over South Island cities is proposed. The Comet will fly from Christchurch and over Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin and Invercargill. It will return to Christchurch direct in a fast, high flight.

As the display and times of arrival over various centres will depend on weather and visibility, no firm announcement will be made until latei;. The Comet is a medium-range intercontinental airliner which the Royal Air Force Transport Command uses for highspeed operations. It cruises at just under 500 miles an hour. Goodwill Visit The visit to Christchurch is part of what is described as a “goodwill visit to New Zealand.” Actually the plane is pioneering the Royal Air Force’s fastest passenger and freight service which will open over a route between Lyneham (Wiltshire) and Singapore and Adelaide in June.

Adelaide is the nearest big airport to the British rocket and missile testing and development range at Woomera. After its visit to the Dominion it is believed that the Comet will return to the United Kingdom with scientists, equipment and secret data of results of latest firings at the range as well as from the Christmas Island hydrogen bomb tests. Aboard the jet on its New Zealand visit will be the air officer commanding-in-chief of the Transport Command (Air Marshal Sir Andrew McKee, D. 5.0., D.F.C.. A-F.C.) He will be accompanied by Lady McKee. Sir Andrew McKee is a New Zealander whose home town is Oxford.The Comet is due to arrive at Harewood at 12.10 p.m. on Saturday from Ohakea. It will leave Harewood for Whenuapai at midday on May 7 on its return flight to the United Kingdom by way of Australia.

Drunkenness in Poland.—A “sobering-up” station in Warsaw has handled 12,000 drunk people since it was opened a year ago, a local newspaper reported Warsaw. April 28.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19570430.2.167

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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28264, 30 April 1957, Page 18

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416

R.A.F. COMET Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28264, 30 April 1957, Page 18

R.A.F. COMET Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28264, 30 April 1957, Page 18

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