RUSSIAN FLIGHT TO MIRNY
Ilyushin Leaves McMurdo The Russian Ilyushin 18 aircraft taking part in a test flight to prove a new route to Mirny by way of New Zealand, left McMurdo Sound early yesterday afternoon on the last leg of the flight. The aircraft had been delayed since Tuesday by bad weather in the Antarctic. It was preceded on the 1550mile flight from McMurdo to Mirny by its companion aircraft, an Antonov 10, which left MeMurdo on Christmas Day.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29707, 28 December 1961, Page 11
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