U2 FLIGHT SOUTH
Antarctic Trip
(N.ZP. A.-Reuter—Copyright) MELBOURNE, May 3 An American pilot yesterday looked over the Antarctic ice cap from a U2 jet aeroplane which had flown from an Australian Air Force base earlier in the day. The flight was the first in the new series by United States Air Force aeroplanes to the south of Australia to test air at high altitudes for radioactivity. The pilot of the U2 was Lieutenant-Colonel H C Curry. Last night, Lieutenant-
Colonel Curry, weary after 8 hours 15 minutes in the cramped cockpit, said that the flight was “real fine." He flew 4000 miles on his round trip, mostly at 70.000 ft He reached the pack ice and could see the ice cap of the Antarctic continent
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29504, 4 May 1961, Page 8
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