Touch-down pleases All Blacks
NZPA Pretoria Bill Osborne, Hamish MacDonald and lan Kirkpatrick could be excused for noi having their feet completely on the ground when the All Blacks trained at Pretoria Boys’ High school yesterday.
The All Black trio had spent the morning at one of the South African Air Force’s training establishments, near Pretoria, culminating their activities with supersonic flights in Mirage jets.
The three All Blacks at least proved their health and fitness, for they had to undergo a stringent medical examination before taking the flights. They were not all in the same pink of condition when they emerged from their hair-raising flights, however, and they reported they would be happy to leave flying such as that to the experts.
One who did not get a flight was one of the New Zealand photographers, who, after a rather heavy night, declared himself medically unfit before the Air Force doctor could get to him.
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