Born at Tring and educated at Shendish Preparatory School, Kings Langley, Navigating Officer Gordon Rodwell is one of the small band of BOAC men specially chosen to become the world’s first aircrew of pure jet air liners.
He is one of the aircrew members of BOAC’s Comet Unit now being trained to fly the De Havilland Comet four jet-engined airliner, which is due to go into passenger service on certain routes as early as possible next year.
The revolutionary Comet is already producing a new conception of air travel as a result of its great speed. Its first route will be from London via Rome to Cairo, extending from there to Singapore and Johannesburg as soon as possible in 1952.
[From the Watford Observer of September 28, 1951]
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