You Will See This in Fiji in March
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EIGHT MILES A MINUTE-EIGHT MILES HIGH! That is the reputation of [?]is Comet Mark la aircraft which will give the Pacific its first jet service, leaving [?]dney on March 13, 1953. Canadian Pacific Airlines will call the new service the [?]t Empress Service.
The first of the new aircraft will be delivered to CPAL in Sydney in January— will be ferried from de Havillands in the UK via the Middle East. Crew training [?]ghts will then be carried out locally. Comet will make the run between Sydney [?]d Honolulu in 13½ hours flying time. Until such time (in 1954) as the Comet [?]ries II is available, passengers will transfer at Honolulu to a DC6B for the last leg the trans-Pacific journey to Vancouver. Length of Series la Comet is 93 feet [?]th a wing-span of 115 feet. It will carry 44 passengers.