Hovercraft Passes Test
(N.Z. Press Association) | AUCKLAND, June 10. The rescue hovercraft at 1 Auckland International Airport passed a test with flying colours yesterday afternoon. It broke down on a rescue exercise on May 12. “It is flying like a bird,” a civil aviation spokesman said. The training of a pool of 13 men to operate the hovercraft is now under way again. They are two-thirds of the way through their course, but the most difficult part, night navigation by radar, lies ahead. This will take a month to complete. Air intakes on the hovercraft had been modified and another engine fitted.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32320, 11 June 1970, Page 30
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