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From: rl@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Robert Langridge%CGL)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: de Havilland Comet at ORD?
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Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 11:34:17 EST
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There is a Comet at London Gatwick near the usual taxiway into the new terminal.
The aircraft is white, labelled "TRAINING" in large letters and has the outer 
50% of each wing removed.

In the October "Airport" (a Heathrow/Gatwick freebie - "The World's First 
Pre-Flight Magazine" - it says so on the cover) it is noted that a pair of 
kestrels and their five young lived in the wing root of this aircraft for 
a while, but have now departed, "...presumably heading for higher horizons".  
The Comet is unlikely to follow.

Bob Langridge				...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!rl (UUCP)
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