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Old 02/14/08, 12:02 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Default Re: Comet

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Originally Posted by biglouis View Post
I can never remeber if it is the round ones which cause the catastrophic failure of the aircraft or these squarish ones.
I seem to remember it was stress fractures in the corners of the square windows. They were rather big too. Hence all subsequent aircraft have had round or oval ones.
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