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Originally Posted by michael_boylan
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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From the TV documentary it looked like DH were fairly new to building metal aircraft, they had a problem getting the internal (glass-fibre?) window trim mouldings to stay in place on the square windows; a quick decision was taken to drill the airframe and pop rivet them in place. The rest, as they say....
