SAMPLING OF AIR
U-2 Flights In Australia (N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—CopyrlgM) MELBOURNE. April 28 Three American U-2 aircraft flew itno a Royal Australian Air Force base eear Melbourne today to begin a month’s high-altitude air sampling for radioactivity. Colonel Hayden C. Curry, the 36-year-old commander of the 4028th Strategic Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, said the U-2 pilots would spend a month taking upper air samples for radioactivity testing. He said their flights would take them south of Australia a« far as the Antarctic ice pack. Colonel Curry described his squadron 'as “the only U-2 squadron in existence.” Asked about other U-2s, particularly those who had made flights over the Soviet Union, Colonel Curry said: "There are a couple around.—they test them.’’ Four United States B-57 aircraft —the American version of the British Canberra bomber—also arrived at East Sale this afternoon to carry out an air-eetmpling programme at heights up to 70,000 feet.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29501, 1 May 1961, Page 3
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