Qantas Buys US Jets
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It was announced in early September that Qantas Empire Airways will purchase, for £lB.B million, a fleet of seven Boeing 707-138 Strato liner jet aircraft from the United States.
Qantas expects to take delivery of these planes in 1959, and will be the first company outside the United States to put them in service.
The planes will be used on Qantas' Australia- UK and Australia-North America routes. They have a range of 3,500 miles and will cut the Sydney-London flight from 48 to 27 hours, and the Sydney-San Francisco flight from 28 hours to 16. (Canton Is. is about 3,200 miles from Sydney). t Mr. R. G. Thorby, Resident Agent of the most progressive outer island in the Cooks, Atiu, is visiting Noumea to attend a month’s course in coffee production methods. Mr. William
Lefebre, of the Department of Agri
culture, is overseeing the Atiu agri
cultural projects during the absence of the Resident Agent.