Jet flight will cost $8000
NZPA London A supersonic Concorde jetliner is expected to fly in Auckland on October 17, to mark the forty-fifth anniversary of the pioneering Lon-don-Auckland flight by Miss Jean Batten. Miss Batten, now aged 71, will be one of the passengers.
The 17 hours it is estimated the Concorde will take to complete the flight compares with the 11 days and 45 minutes she took in her Percival Gull monoplane in 1936.
Each of the 100 passengers on the charter will pay $8142 which includes a week’s accommodation in Auckland before the return flight. Proceeds from the flight will go to the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators’ fiftieth anniversary appeal, with half going towards scholarships for trainee flying instructors and commercial pilots. The organiser, a British publisher and businessman, Robert Pooley, said it was hoped to establish records for the fastest flights between England and Australasia.
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