De Havilland Comet – Airliner Tech Vol. 7


The graceful de Havilland Comet was the first aircraft to bring high speed, jet-powered flight to the world’s airline marketplace. Unfortunately, it was also one of the very first civilian aircraft to fail in flight from explosive disintegration caused by a then marginal understanding of the forces and loads experienced by high altitude, pressurized, jet transport aircraft. Although it was a civil airliner failure, the redesigned Comet went on to serve the Royal Airforce in an updated configurat

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