JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA
JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA have agreed to conduct landing tests next spring and summer at Woomera Airfield for development of Hope, the H-2 Orbiting Plane. Alflex, the Automatic Landing Flight Experiment, is to be dropped from a helicopter at an altitude of about 5,000 ft., some 8,900 ft. from the runway.
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