LARGE BALLOON FLOATED

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26265, 9 November 1950, Page 6

LARGE BALLOON FLOATED

LOCATED BY RADAR AT HAREWOOD - An exhibit at the Canterbury Royal Centennial Show at Addington yesterday attracted the attention of every visitor to the show and passers-by on Lincoln road, but it also attracted more official attention. It was a telecommunications balloon for calffirkting radar stations, believed to be the only one in New Zealand, bought from the War Assets Realisation Board by a Christchurch engineering company and used to displav the comground tradenaark h ‘S h ab°ve the' Official attention c»me from the Harewood aerodrome at 5 a.m. yesterday when the balloon was raised a ? , a . tcst - Radar at the aerodrome the balloon and the duty OS * no time in telephoning the exhibitor at the Show Grounds to P°’ nt ’he civil aviation regull? thev Was no su «Bestion that ,«L-' ,r h^ d l ? ee u n „ cot ’ travene d> and to ask that the balloon be lowered to a height of about 60 feet, where it could not possibly be a dang*. ? 0 CV en low-flymg aircraft. ’Die request Tai ?h mp J' ed and'lor the rest of h^<u?i ay rt the - balloon floated at that height dipping and swerving occaSl °For y m a o S st ‘ a , s / aught by ‘he wind. aduVts K h l > dren ' and lor m * n y bal,oon »'» ‘he largest n^ y h d ver seen Former servicemen were reminded of the barrage balloons which floated over London ships g travpllin? r - and those us<,d on snips traielling m convoy. Actually the balloon at Addington is midwav between the other two var>X Size It Is about 45 feet long and H feet m diameter and is seeded bv 1 single stout rope wherw. in? Dy . Lo r nd a,t p b^ aS wer h e e Tver hawsers ‘° be SeCUred by W and n th n F "«’dur’ng C t r hl