AIR FORCE APPOINTMENT—Group Captain G. E. Watt (middle), who has been appointed Chief Engineering Officer to the Royal New Zealand Air Force, photographed in England with Wing Commander W. G. Clouston (left), formerly of Wellington, and Group Captain E. M. Donaldson, who piloted the Royal Air Force jetpropelled Meteor which set the world air speed record of 616 miles an hour last September. Group Captain Watt is a former New Zealand Rhodes Scholar and a graduate of Canterbury and Auckland University Colleges. He was one of the principal collaborators in the development of jet and gas turbine aero engines.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25178, 8 May 1947, Page 3
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99AIR FORCE APPOINTMENT—Group Captain G. E. Watt (middle), who has been appointed Chief Engineering Officer to the Royal New Zealand Air Force, photographed in England with Wing Commander W. G. Clouston (left), formerly of Wellington, and Group Captain E. M. Donaldson, who piloted the Royal Air Force jetpropelled Meteor which set the world air speed record of 616 miles an hour last September. Group Captain Watt is a former New Zealand Rhodes Scholar and a graduate of Canterbury and Auckland University Colleges. He was one of the principal collaborators in the development of jet and gas turbine aero engines. Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25178, 8 May 1947, Page 3
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