U.S. AIRCRAFT DISABLED
Damage To Ski Assembly
The United States Navy P2V7 Neptune aircraft which arrived at Wigram on Monday from McMurdo Sound has a damaged ski assembly and will not be able to return to Antarctica for at least a fortnight. The trouble has been reported to the naval authorities in Washington and the manufacturers of the aircraft are sending out replacement components and an engineer.
In the meantime facilities at Wigram and Harewood are being used for preliminary work on the ski assembly. Rear-Admiral J. E. H. Mcßeath, the Chief of New Zealand Naval Staff, is expected to fly to the Antarctic in the Neptune if its repairs are completed before the Globemasters are able to return. If conditions at the landing strip in McMurdo Sound improve sufficiently for the Globemasters to land, RearAdmiral Mcßeath will travel in a Globemaster. The noted ice expert, Dr. Andrew Assur, is expected to travel with RearAdmiral Mcßeath.
Conditions on the ice runway had not improved, said a United States Navy spokesman yesterday and there were many potholes all over the strip.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28179, 18 January 1957, Page 6
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