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The De Havilland Comet: A Pioneer with a Fatal Flaw
The story of the design of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner. Why the two high-profile crashes occurred, and how this was fixed. (aeroxplorer.com) और अधिक...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Another often overlooked fact...the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) operated the world's first regularly scheduled passenger jet service (on the route from Canada to Germany), beating all civilian commercial airlines to the punch.
forgot to mention that the RCAF used the Comet on the world's first scheduled jet service on North Atlantic.
Unable to open the website - advises to deactivate ad blocker, WHICH I DO NOT HAVE
Interesting article. I wasn't aware the first crash was a problem on takeoff.
I flew in a United Arab (probably now Egyptian Airlines or is it Egypt Air? Comet IV. My only ride.
Frankfurt to Cairo. 1966.
I flew in a United Arab (probably now Egyptian Airlines or is it Egypt Air? Comet IV. My only ride.
Frankfurt to Cairo. 1966.
The other design flaw was the oval air intakes to the engines. At take-off angle there was insufficient airflow going through them. Later rectified.
"The Avro Canada C102 Jetliner was a Canadian prototype medium-range turbojet-powered jet airliner built by Avro Canada in 1949. It was beaten to the air by only 13 days by the de Havilland Comet, thereby becoming the second jet airliner in the world. The name "Jetliner" was chosen as a shortening of the term "jet airliner", a term which is still in popular usage. The aircraft was considered suitable for busy routes along the US eastern seaboard and garnered intense interest, notably from Howard Hughes who even offered to start production under license. However continued delays in Avro Canada's all-weather interceptor project, the CF-100 Canuck, led to an order to stop working on the project in 1951, with the prototype Jetliner later cut up for scrap."