N.Z.-CANADA AIR SERVICE
“COMET JETS IN USE BY 1954” MELBOURNE, Dec. 29. By 1954 six Comet jet airliners should be under operation on routes to New Zealand and Australia by British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines, the chairman of B.C.P.A. (Mr G. P. Watt) ahnounced yesterday. Mr Watt said the jets would carry passengers from Sydney and Auckland to Vancouver, by way of Fiji, Canton Island, Honolulu and San Francisco. At present B.C.P.A. was operating four DC6 aircraft and these were working to capacity to carry the present Pacific traffic. Mr Watt said that Britain had consolidated her war-time lead in the development of the gas turbine engine and its application to commercial purposes. The Comets would carry 44 passengers at a speed of 500 miles an hour and would reduce the present flying time from Australia to North America bv about 10 hours.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26617, 31 December 1951, Page 4
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