Way back in 1957, when I was an air traffic control trainee at RNZAF station Ohakea, I heard a Bristol freighter report:
“We have just passed the Comet.”
… then, a few seconds later, add:
“The Comet was going the other way.”
(The humor relates to the lumbering Bristol compared to the sleek inbound RAF Comet.)
Murray Clarkson
