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4 * %Bangor Jets To Catch UpTake Off Today For Atlantic HopVBanner. July W fAP— Ptlrits of two Shooting Star* today awaited the weatherman's high sign for a Labrador hop to rejoin 1,4 * la ter Jet* on a pioricer oversets flight.They were Capt.. Frank W. KUbbe of Anderson, Ind., and Capt. Warmi P\ Patterson.' jr.* of Philadelphia.The air force sold they would take off about 7 am, feat) Wednesday, weather permitting.* Their planea ' remained behind at Dow Air Force Base. -Bangor, for tinkering while other F-M'g of the 58th Fighter Group streaked 714 miles in . two houra Monday from . Bangor to Goose Bay, Labrador.Dow officers wild the Jet armada's next Jump to Maraauualc, Green: land, was held up for safety'* sake pending arrival at Goose Bay of the delayed . crift. The group la aerved by a single rescue unit and the Lebra-dor-Greenland leg la 800 railea, moat of it over water.V. S. air force officers at Bangor apd London discounted speculation that American and west-bound British jets are racing to make tb* first Jet-propelled Atlantic crossing.The Americana somewhere along the steppinotone*' rto Fuersten-tiddbruck. Germany will pass six RAF Vampifes which reached Iceland from Scotland Monday *n route to New York end .Montreal.After the Greenland stop the American Jets are bound for Keflavik,Iceland: Stornoway, Scotland; Idtham, England, and Fuerstenfeldbruck aon their flight, termed by the air force a training and study mission.
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Portland Press Herald
Portland, Maine, US
Wed, Jul 14, 1948
Page 17
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