NEW SITE CHOSEN
ROCKET RANGE IN AUSTRALIA (Rec. 7 p.m.) CANBERRA, April 17. The proposal to establish the headquarters of the rocket bomb range at Mount Eba has been abandoned. A new site has been selected in the same area, but within 15 miles of the east-west railway line. An immediate start will be made to establish the rocket headquarters, and the first experiments are expected to commence within the next nine months. Supersonic aircraft which will take part in some experiments will be brought to Australia much eahlier than was anticipated, and the first are expected to arrive very soon. Plans are now being completed to fly prefabricated dwellings to the site, so that it may be completed ss quickly as possible. Other prefabricated huts will be flown to various points along the range to house experimenters who will be located at observation poets to report on the action of the rockets after firing. •Die new site will be located in South Australia some 60 miles from the location originally proposed. The decision will save the Commonwealth Government many thousands of pounds in the cost of establishing the range and will not interfere with the. actual line of fire, which will be almost as originally plotted by tht i British rocket mission.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25162, 18 April 1947, Page 7
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