FLIGHT OF 3000 MILES AT 3000 M.P.H.
Received Thursday 8.40 p.m. CANBERRA, May 23. The British Rocket Bomb Mission has told the Commonwealth GovernI ment that Central Australia will he j satisfactory as a rocket testing area. j It is now expected that the British j Government will he urged to estab- ! lish a permanent rocket testing j ground in this countr.y. I The Sun reports that Mr. Chifley, Mr. Forde and other Minister? attanded a secret screening at Duntroon Military College, showing a projectile tested in Australia leaviug the firing platform. The projectile is stated to have a range of 3000 miles and a speed of 3000 miles an hour.
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 May 1946, Page 5
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