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Comments for "Before the VC10 we had the Comet, Masirah 1970"

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Uhr-Teufel Sep 28, 2010 2:30am
The Comet was a gorgeous airliner, but its square-window configuration led to disaster as one aircraft after another suddenly began falling out of the skies. After extensive testing (of a pressurized fuselage submerged in a huge water tank), DeHavilland concluded that minor stress cracks that began in the corners of the windows ultimately lead to in-flight disintegration of the entire airframe! By the time they'd fixed the problem, it was too late for the British airliner industry as Boeing's 707 began gobbling up any/all available contracts!