COMPLETE TOWNSHIP TO RE FLOWN IN
FACTLITIES FOR 600 FAMILIES Received Monday, 7 p.m. ADELAiDE, May 19. A complete towuship for (500 families will 1 >e fiown into the roeket range areu to liouse tlie personnel. Ineluded in the plans are a sehool and other ainenities. The houses will be prefabricated iu timber in Adelaide, Melbourne, aml Pertli. The aetual site of tlie townshiji has not been reloased. A eonstruction nnit of the R.A.A.F. will move into the range head .almost ini! 'iately to build tlie aerodrome ano hnngars, which it is expeeted will be completed within tliree months. Light1 aircraft are already landing on the airslnp and have taken in some equipJiient. Hecause of developments in the desigu of roeket bombs, elaborate launehing apparatus will not be neeessary, as new modifications allow the roelcets to take off without a powerful back thrust at ground level.
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 May 1947, Page 5
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