JET-PROPELLED PLANES
(Special P.A. Correspondent.)
LONDON, October 4.
It was stated today that jet-propul-sion engines are now being manufactured in bulk by well-known British firms which have' been concerned with their development since January, 1936.
Two New Zealanders so far have been attacked by the Luftwaffe's jetpropelled aircraft. They are Wing Commanders W. V. C. Compton, or Mission Bay, and J. M. Checketts, of Invercargill, who were both leading their wings over Holland at the time.
Compton saw an aircraft resembling a Mosquito approaching at about 5000 feet higher than the Spitfires, and he ordered his wing to watch it. The German flew past, then turned and dived down in attack.
The Spitfires broke to right and left, and the jet-propelled * aircraft gave "two squirts" of white smoke like a vapour trail, and disappeared rapidly. No Spitfires were damaged. Checketts was escorting bombers over the Arnhem area when he -saw a single-engined jet-propelled plane climbing vertically under the bombers. It did no damage to the formation, and then chased Checketts, who turned his Spitfire.away. The plane was last seen with a Polish squadron chasing it.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 83, 5 October 1944, Page 8
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