Comet Makes History in Air Travel

Series

Series Name

British Paramount News

Issue

Issue No.

1948

Date Released

31 Oct 1949

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Year’s Worst Storms Lash South Coast
2. 2Truman Sees UNO Building Under Way
3. 3Sterope Wins Cambridgeshire
4. 4Comet Makes History in Air Travel
5. 5Lisbon Holds Bullfight to Fete Franco
6. 6Gibraltar Welcomes Amethyst

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 6

Summary

New jet airliner flies to North Africa and back at 450 mph

Keywords

Aviation

Library number

18190

Length of story (in feet)

54

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