1965 SOLAR ECLIPSE
Flight Planned By Scientists W.g.PA.-g«ut«r—Copyright! FLORENCE, May 20. American, French, Dutch and Italian scientists have expressed interest in plans announced in Florence yesterday to send a jetliner “flying observatory” over the Pacific to observe next year’s solar eclipse. It is hoped that British scientists will also join the DCB jetliner which will have room for 63 scientists and technicians on its flight from Tahiti during the eclipse period about May 30, 1965. s Similar Flight
The Douglas Aircraft Company announced plans for the flight to a committee at the annual conference of the Cospar international committee for space research, which Was tola earlier of discoveries made by scientists on a similar flight over 'Canada during a flight last year. Douglas officials said the aircraft would “follow the eclipse” on May 30 in a seven-hour flight north-east of Tahiti, passing over the French Polynesian islands of Hatutu and Eiao.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30446, 21 May 1964, Page 13
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