FLIGHT IN ROCKET
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London Mochanic's Hopes
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LONDON, June '23. A London garage meehanic, Mr Peter Neal, aged 28. hopes to be the first man to fly in a rocket, Working secretly in a small shed he lias already constructed the sliell of an experimental model, which he will test shortly when he lias received a Honie office permit. If the trial fiights are successful he will tlien start work on an 80ft. mancarrying projectile, with which he hopes to make a transatlantic crossing from England to the United States in about two hours. "I have arranged to use powder fuel for the take-off, and then switch over to liquid when I am well up in the sub-stratosphere, " he said In rocketing between America and Luropo it would bo neeessary to acecleralc balf-way across the oceau and rlc nolerate the other hnlL
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 164, 29 July 1937, Page 3
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