SUCCESS OF MISSILE

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28270, 7 May 1957, Page 13

SUCCESS OF MISSILE

Targets Destroyed At Woomera (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) SYDNEY, May 6. A new British homing rocket has tracked down and destroyed four “Jindivik” targets at the Woomera rocket range in South Australia, according to an executive of the de Havilland Aircraft Company (Aust.). Wing Commander R. Kingsford Smith said at Sydney yesterday that the missile, called the “Firestreak,” had been developed by the de Havilland Propeller Division in Britain, and had been ordered by the British Ministry of Supply in large numbers. In the tests, the Jindiviks— Australian jet robot-controlled target aircraft—were towing targets fitted with heaters to simulate radiation from a jet aircraft.

The Firestreaks were launched from Australian-built Sabre jet fighters. Detectors in the missiles, sensitive to infra-red rays, , “fixed” on the targets and destroyed them. Mr T. W. Air, manager of the de Havilland Propeller Division, said he was confident that no jet bomber could get away from the Firestreak.

Three hundred and nine Hungarian refugees, expected to be the last of the New Zealand quota of 1000, will arrive in the Dutch ship Sibajak on Sunday. The group includes 124 single men, 26 single women, 28 families totalling 97 persons, and 31 married couples.—(PA.)