Michael-IIIf Posted February 13, 2008 Share #1 Posted February 13, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) No, not the retailer. [ATTACH]74150[/ATTACH] Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted February 13, 2008 Posted February 13, 2008 Hi Michael-IIIf, Take a look here Comet. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
elansprint72 Posted February 13, 2008 Share #2 Posted February 13, 2008 Certificate of airworthyness refused! One of it's descendants flew over my house today (Nimrod being re-furbed at Woodford). Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
biglouis Posted February 13, 2008 Share #3 Posted February 13, 2008 Michael A very evocative shot. The Comet being the first commercial jet airliner and a British triumph but for the unfortunate design of the windows on the fuselage. I can never remeber if it is the round ones which cause the catastrophic failure of the aircraft or these squarish ones. All my life my father banged on about his trip to and from Austrailia in a Comet. In those days it must have been as exotic an experience as Concorde. Anyway, a very worthy shot for this new forum and thanks for sharing LouisB Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark_goode Posted February 13, 2008 Share #4 Posted February 13, 2008 Hi Michael - I thought maybe you meant the American cleaning powder, Comet. It looks like they could use a little Comet on this Comet. Great airplane and great image. Thanks for sharing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael-IIIf Posted February 14, 2008 Author Share #5 Posted February 14, 2008 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elansprint72 Posted February 14, 2008 Share #6 Posted February 14, 2008 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. 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.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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