“In a day and a half, the comet has flown over 14 countries, travelled over half way round the world, and cut what until this morning was an 86-hour journey, into a 36-hour one.”
The BOAC Comet now travels from London to Tokyo, more than halving the time it takes to travel between the two great cities. The first official flight is today, but BBC television cameras went on an earlier training flight to see what the journey is going to be like. Charles Gardner reports.
Clip taken from BBC Television Newsreel, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 3 April, 1953.
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