Quite a few people have commented on the topic of the round windows. Check out the 'Square window myths' paragraph on Wikipedia :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Comet
@rod_at_adelaide5766
Жыл бұрын
Well that was an interesting read, so much for my earlier post. It was a well spread myth even Air Crash Investigation got it wrong, we are never too old to learn!
@Knight6831
Жыл бұрын
If circumstances had not been so cruel to the British then the De-Havilland Comet 2s would get Avon which would have allowed the Comet 3 and 4 to take the 15,000ibf Rolls-Royce RB.106 engine
@speedbird737
Жыл бұрын
the FAA according to their website will dispute its not a myth - the windows were a factor
@Knight6831
Жыл бұрын
@@speedbird737Have you actually seen any pictures of the De-Havilland Comet 1? They had rounded square windows and it was the way they were installed that was the problem and not the design of the windows because the De-Havilland Comet 1 was actually a very sound design but no one understood about metal fatigue and do not even try to bring up the BS of "De-Havilland did not know about pressurisation" De-Havilland did know about pressurisation but we should remember that no one had built a jet airliner before the De-Havilland Comet
@speedbird737
Жыл бұрын
@@Knight6831 correct so in conclusion the windows were an issue (regardless of if a good design or not) even the BAE website said :"It identified that despite extensive testing in the design stage, the cyclical pressurisation and subsequent depressurisation of the fuselage had accelerated the stress levels. This had caused cracks and fissures around the corners of the ADF, and some the main passenger windows, causing disastrous fractures in the structure and an almost instant failure of the airframe."
@808G8GT
Жыл бұрын
Whats amazing is the design of this airplane looks more futuristic than current model airplanes.
@MrJimheeren
Жыл бұрын
It looks very 40s. The integrated engines, the square windows. The big landing gear
@ScotlandTheBrave_1
Жыл бұрын
@@MrJimheerenthe comet 4 has circle windows. Perhaps if it had modern oval windows it would change your perspective
@MrJimheeren
Жыл бұрын
@@ScotlandTheBrave_1 I was thinking about the Comet 1. But yeah the 4 definitely looks quite futuristic and old fashioned at the same time
@iancharlton678
Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of the young Americans in the 1st Gulf War……. Victors arriving, them thinking it was some new super secret Limey wonder weapon…… ……..again, a sort of Flash Gordon steam punk vibe 🥳
@steven95N
Жыл бұрын
Nothing about this aircraft says "future" maybe in the context of the time it was designed, sure but now, no it doesn't. You're conflating "Futuristic" with "Different".
@Makker-zp7kl
Жыл бұрын
I flew twice as a passenger on this aircraft, 30.09.1962 flown from Culcutta to Singapore, 6.12.64 flown from Culcutta to London,. I know this thanks to something called the "Junior Jet Cub" who provided me with a log book and its all recorded in there. A great aircraft!
@juliogonzo2718
Жыл бұрын
It is kind of sad seeing that aircraft land locked forever. The places it's been, the memories made by it. A shell of its former self
@Rich72James
Жыл бұрын
What was the experience like
@Makker-zp7kl
Жыл бұрын
@@Rich72James I was very young at the time but I do remember flying in the aircraft and being shown the cockpit. To my small eyes it was very spacious and comfortable, ofcourse the reality was that it was quite "snug" up front! According to my log book I also flew in G-APDH as well as G-APDB. I believe DH was written off after a heavy landing broke the undercarrage in Singapore.
@glieseseventen4921
Жыл бұрын
Are you aware this class of plane had a fatal design flaw that resulted in crashes and hundreds of fatalities?
@juliogonzo2718
Жыл бұрын
@@glieseseventen4921 they fixed that. I'm sure it did not help it's credibility. That is probably why the 707 was much more successful
@Primus54
6 ай бұрын
The Comet’s nose, fuselage, and wings look so sleek and modern, yet the tail section looks like it was borrowed from a ‘40s propeller aircraft. Great video.
@sandervanderkammen9230
3 ай бұрын
Actually the Comet has a very distinctive 1920s Art Deco style that was very dated looking for the 1950s... The nose is copied from the Boeing 307 which was introduced in 1937.
@mikepowell2776
Жыл бұрын
During the early 60s my late father was Chief Instructor with East African Airways. As a teenager I had the pleasure of flying in each of the airline’s three Comet 4s including on the flight deck across the Sahara and for a landing at Heathrow where we taxied slowly so the crew could watch a VC10 takeoff. The Comet 4 was a beautiful aeroplane in its day. Many thanks for rekindling memories and for a very well-balanced video.
@fusixnrwicnwiejciwj8925
Жыл бұрын
Wow that’s incredible thanks for sharing
@stevenr2463
Жыл бұрын
Wow. I flew a few times with East African but on VC10s. My father was however in the drawing office of de Havilland from the war on (with a break till 1957) and worked on the Comet.
@fusixnrwicnwiejciwj8925
Жыл бұрын
@@stevenr2463 amazing how these videos can bring people with similar experiences like this together
@mal_752
Жыл бұрын
Excellent...what lovely memories. I lived in Zanzibar in the early 50s and 60s and remember all the Royal Mail DC 3 aircraft of the time. There was the odd DH89a and then F27 Friendship turboprop came later. I purchased a book about the history of East African Airways. 🙌.
@mal_752
Жыл бұрын
@@stevenr2463 🙏👍👍👍👍🙏🙏
@renyoung9735
Жыл бұрын
I was a passenger in a BEA Comet 4B in early 1960’s. Rome-Paris-London. Your shot of the flight deck was of interest to me especially the nose wheel steering. When leaving Paris the aeroplane started to accelerate on the taxiway, rounding a curve picking up speed, entered the runway, continued to accelerate and took off in one continuous movement. I can now visualise the captain sitting there with one hand on the ‘steering wheel’ and the other on the throttles. The aeroplane was lightly loaded, very few passengers and probably not much fuel. I don’t know what angle we were at initial climb but it was steep. We were pressed back in our seats and a fellow passenger on the adjacent aisle had a bag suspended on the seat in front of him. I recall looking at the angle this freely suspended bag was making and thinking Wow
@Lee-sv8su
Жыл бұрын
It was so beautiful and looked incredibly ahead of it’s time people must have been in awe of this back in the 50s
@steviechampagne
Жыл бұрын
if we are in awe in 2023, surely they were in even more awe 70 years ago!
@yammmit
11 ай бұрын
its*
@bret9741
Жыл бұрын
I’m an airline captain. I have been flying since age three way back in the 1960’s. I have lived aircraft all my life. I’ve been blessed to fly a lot of aircraft and can identify 90% of all aircraft at quite a distance. The comet was a beautiful aircraft. It’s just a shame there were pressurization fatigue issues early on. I still think the 707 would ultimately have won out but the comet, had it been successful, would have lead to an updated jet that most certainly would have give boing a run for its money.
@arthur_p_dent4282
Жыл бұрын
What a beautiful aircraft.
@Joker-yw9hl
Жыл бұрын
You've simply got to love that retro futurism of the age
@andybaker2456
Жыл бұрын
Very interesting. Being a young plane spotter in the late 70s, I only ever saw a Comet in operation once, as we generally went to Heathrow, where no Comets were operating at that time. But one Sunday afternoon in 1978, we made a brief stop at Gatwick on the way home to London from Brighton. We got there just in time to see a Dan Air Comet take to the air, it was quite a sight!
@blatherskite9601
Жыл бұрын
I remember Dan Air comets at Gatwick, way back in the day, seen when disembarking from British Caledonian VC10 and 707s.
@michaelwilliams3232
Жыл бұрын
Flew to Corfu in 1980 with Dan Air on a Comet.
@alanjones6359
Жыл бұрын
I flew to Portugal from Gatwick 1979 dan air , felt lucky to fly in it , must have been coming to the end of its service , nice smooth flight
@northlandrider5396
Жыл бұрын
Until now I had not realised how beautiful the Comet is.
@BillyAlabama
Жыл бұрын
The Comet might be, to me, the most beautiful jet ever designed. Brilliantly sleek!
@leonardocaceres2540
Жыл бұрын
Hello, my grandfather was one of the first Captains of DH Comets of Aerolíneas Argentinas in the sixties. Then he flew Boeing 707 till 1975 when he retired with 22000hs of flight. Great job with your Chanel, sorry about my english... Greetings from Buenos Aires Argentina 🇦🇷
@pedrodurrer9630
Жыл бұрын
Paul thanks for this wonderful video about Comet
@PaulStewartAviation
Жыл бұрын
Very welcome
@Josh_MTB
Жыл бұрын
Good video Paul.
@zackaryshipard8572
Жыл бұрын
I agree
@cdl0
Жыл бұрын
My father flew this exact aircraft many times as navigator. From his logs, the first entry for G-APDB is 19 September 1959 London-Gander (6h35m) and the final one is 19 December 1960 Sailsbury-Nairobi-Khartoum (3h00m+3h05m). Shortly after, he switched to Boeing 707s as pilot.
@stevetaylor8698
Жыл бұрын
Dream job, I am sure he had many exciting tales to tell you.
@cdl0
Жыл бұрын
@@stevetaylor8698 Since many neighbours were also flight crew, this was normal, daily life for us as children. It was just a job, like a bus driver, or a train driver. What I noticed as I grew up was that they all seemed to be exceptionally clever, capable people, apparently able to do anything and everything.
@mal_752
Жыл бұрын
@@cdl0 👍👍👍👍👍
@cdl0
Жыл бұрын
@@mal_752 Thanks: you deserve a story from days of yore. As often happened, when we were taken to a museum, such as Duxford, the adults would be reminiscing about the exhibits they has flown, while the children would be laughing their heads off about the fact that that their parents were so old that they had flown these ancient, obsolete machines. That is the way it was. 🙂
@Roland8879
5 ай бұрын
He must have flown with my late father Jim Manning, a captain at that time.
@27july1954
Ай бұрын
Oh my goodness! This is nostalgia on steroids. I flew on the Comet 4c from 1960 to 1966 from Malaya to England and back every year, and first class too (it's a long story). It is such a gorgeous looking aircraft, and I recall many hours gazing out of the windows at the clouds below where it was always sunny in daytime. But the real treat of a flight would be invited to go into the cockpit and sit in the Captain's seat. Awesome. Your walk through the inside brought tingles to my spine. It did indeed seem to be the golden age of air travel. I still have my BOAC Junior Jet Club Certificate and Log Book.
@PbPomper
Жыл бұрын
Such a beautiful plane. I love the look of the integrated engines.
@staralliancefan1245
Жыл бұрын
Great video Paul! I remember your previous tour around this aircraft at duxford so it's good to see it again in 4K and much longer with more information!
@awlwayzl8
Жыл бұрын
My old man flew the Comet 4 and Super VC10 for East African Airways. He loved the Comet
@kevinsteele2773
Жыл бұрын
It’s tragic downfall failures were definitely, well, sad. However could you imagine stepping out of a DC3 and into flying in the comet, I would be like flying to Texas in a 737 or a320 and flying home on starship l. The difference in technology for the day was outstanding. Regardless of it’s inevitable downfall she was the queen of the skies in her time. Nice little video Paul 👌🏻
@jamesgovett3225
Жыл бұрын
Seeing a De-Havilland Comet at Melbournes then International airport at Essendin in the early 1960’s as a young boy made a big impression with me still to this day and obviously was one of the few Jetliners that could land there as Melburnians had to go to Sydney mostly to travel overseas on a 707 or DC-8 as they were not able to use Essendon until Tullamarine opened in the 1970’s, thanks for the great tour to my mind the most aesthetic jetliner that has ever been built! 👌
@zoperxplex
Жыл бұрын
This plane must have been a true heartbreaker for Britain's aerospace industry.
@josephpiskac2781
Жыл бұрын
I am 70 years old and being from central U.S.I have little memory of the Comet especially the early designs. It is a tremendous history I appreciate reference to the early body warping and the beautiful shots of the cockpit. Thanks for another great presentation!
@DropBear69
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, sir, for commenting on anything your many years of experience may have seen so it can be recorded forever here on KZitem for prosperity's sake and for the benefit of those younger and less experienced than yourself. Any comment you make can only improve the younger generation's knowledge. Best wishes from Australia.
@josephpiskac2781
Жыл бұрын
@@DropBear69 In Washington DC I knew a British Colonial Administrator who grew up in England during WWII and was assigned to Malaysia. He commented that he flew on the Comet and loved the appearance of the design. He was very proud of it. In the 1960s I attended an Strategic Air Command airshow and the flight crew of a Nimrod took my aboard for a tour. Maybe more likely a Hadley Page Victor Bomber. I would of been eleven years old and the British Officers were extremely good to me. I regret I was likely deplorable child. In closing in the 1980s I flew in a 1950s Lockheed Electra turboprop passenger plan. That class of plane at its introduction experienced engines ripping themselves off the wings with I believe the total loss of the planes. I was amazed at just how heavily the fuselage was constructed it felt like a flying tank. The designers were very conservative and regardless had engines flying off the wings. This Lockheed was used by the United States military for a similar purpose as the Nimrod.
@commandingjudgedredd1841
Жыл бұрын
@@josephpiskac2781 Nimmy's, eh? I worked on an RAF base (now Army) as a civvy worker in one of the Messes that operated Nimrod MR2's. So, very much a regular sight in my area. The house I live at was under one of their landing circuit paths and there was rarely a quite moment, when those old Rolls Royce Spey engines got close. I was in the local ATC back in the Nineties, and went on few Air Experience Flights in them. Very sad day when they stopped operating. Nowadays, our local aviation museum has a forward fuselage/nose section that's open for the public to walk through and a whole Nimrod on the camp, that sits engineless on a dispersal area near the coast, after the MoD had it kicked out of its hanger.
@davejohn7805
Жыл бұрын
This is fantastic. I flew Comet 4C DanAir Manchester to Athens around Aug 1977 I think. I was 11 at the time and remember being sat by the large window. Just a beautiful aircraft in my humble opinion. I've been interested in civil aircraft ever since. Thanks for this well presented video.
@MrAlwaysBlue
Жыл бұрын
I also flew Dan Air Comet about the same time and same age!
@sub222marathon
Жыл бұрын
So glad this showed up on my suggested clips. Earned another subscriber!
@PaulStewartAviation
Жыл бұрын
Welcome :)
@vix4x41
Жыл бұрын
A sleek beauty. Now if you could just find us a Caravelle ❤
@alanjm1234
Жыл бұрын
I flew in a Comet from London to Berlin (I think) I was only about 5 years old and can barely remember it, but can recall walking across the tarmac to the plane, on a cold, windy, rainy day.
@rossrreyes
Жыл бұрын
Honestly one of the best looking planes in all of aviation
@ashman4827
Жыл бұрын
Thank you stating the facts. A lot of people complain about the coach class seating nowadays and compare it with the flying quality 50 years ago, without considering the fact for the price they have to pay for a coach class today vs flying back in the "good old days"...
@Supersupra87
Жыл бұрын
Took me up to 30sec before i realized that this wasnt a new plane xD. Love the design!
@Robert-mn8gc
Жыл бұрын
The Commet ❤ it . Really appreciate the 4 engines built in2 the Wings
@Shahrdad
Жыл бұрын
My parents flew to their honeymoon in London on a BOAC Comet 4. And luckily, they also took a photo of it!
@sonquatsch8585
Жыл бұрын
most beautiful commercial jet by far, ever created. gorgeous.
@zackaryshipard8572
Жыл бұрын
Best videos I have seen on this channel yet
@PaulStewartAviation
Жыл бұрын
Glad to hear. Why do you think it’s the best? I’m always keen to hear co constructive feedback! :)
@UncleFeedle
Жыл бұрын
There was a cockpit from a Comet on display at Gatwick for a while back in the 90's. I remember being amazed at how cramped and complicated it looked compared to modern aircraft.
@ivanblakely903
Жыл бұрын
Excellent video. I was lucky enough to fly on the Comet 4 twice with MSA in December of 1967 and again a year later, from Singapore to Hong Kong. Both flights were memorable as each time I had a window seat on right side for the Kowloon approach to Kai Tak.
@danielversion1.035
Жыл бұрын
OOOOOOOO!!! A TSR-2 😍😍
@PaulStewartAviation
Жыл бұрын
That video is coming in a few weeks :)
@danielversion1.035
Жыл бұрын
@@PaulStewartAviation excellent!! Keep up the good work mate 👌👌
@chrisblay
Жыл бұрын
My Uncle worked for De Haviland in the 1950’s at the time this aircraft was developed. Another example of British leading the way, before being overtaken by foreign competitors. He later went on to work for Lockheed in USA, which I suppose was a logical progression of the time. The Comet really was a beautiful aircraft ahead of its time.
@WilhelmKarsten
9 ай бұрын
A truly shameful and humiliating chapter in British aviation history... de Haviland was decades behind in aircraft technology and its collapse in in 1958 was inevitable
@maxsec2
Жыл бұрын
note the comet 1 square windows, where these are oval. the corners are the cracks formed which brought down the 1's. No corners in later models to remove the crack issue
@svenjanssen08
Жыл бұрын
First time I saw a vid in this channel! Love it! What a mountain of info! Keep it up
@camptube7621
Жыл бұрын
Been to duxford. Amazing place and well worth a visit.
@al-mansoural-sharif8576
Жыл бұрын
Very nice plane
@willmo1725
Жыл бұрын
Always liked this plane. Smooth body no protruding engines under the wing just looks so slick. I amagine working on engins was a bear, though. Thanks for the show.
@DexterSkelter
Жыл бұрын
This aircraft is gorgeous. Thank You Paul.
@kevinphillips9408
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely beautiful aircraft
@peterhoulis1184
Жыл бұрын
Its really sleek and looks awesome
@richardschindler8822
Жыл бұрын
What a fantastic and informative video, thank you
@arizonaalchemy7572
Жыл бұрын
Love the contours on this aircraft. The enclosed engines look Cool. I've never seen one of these before.Nice looking Bird.
@koh_ling
Жыл бұрын
Another fascinating tour paul👌
@montyzumazoom1337
Жыл бұрын
Beautiful. Now almost every airliner has engined hanging from the wings. Maintenance is obviously easier, but the lines of the Comet with it’s inboard engines was a true design classic.
@Nostromo_1
Жыл бұрын
If the engine would catch fire or explode it could out take out the wing. that is the reason they moved away from this design.
@edwardcalvert
6 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing this. I really enjoyed this tour on the DeHavilland Commet. The whole story of how this aircraft came into existence as well as it going in connection with the leap into the jet age is beautiful and amazing.
@urbexandbrokenthings4806
Жыл бұрын
An absolute work of art!!!!!
@Boodieman72
Жыл бұрын
The thing I remember about the Comet was it used square windows which caused issues with cracking and failure. Once rounded edges on windows were used it fixed all kinds of issues. I think it was an issue of pressurization, which was new at the time.
@mal_752
Жыл бұрын
Still loved the little curtains on the square windows. 👍👍👍👍
@wilburfinnigan2142
Жыл бұрын
Boodieman the big problem was they punched the holes in the window frames rather than drill them and punching caused the cracks !!! DUUUUUHHH!!!!!
@THEAVIATION_GOD
8 ай бұрын
Wow what a amazing video showing a plane i can never see with a modern camrea. I love this content!
@andrewdevine3920
Жыл бұрын
It has a definite Thurderbirds look about it. Very retro-futuristic and sleek.
@kenward9501
Жыл бұрын
If you go to Cosford (free entry) you can see many aircraft including a complete Comet 1. (msn7) This Comet also has round windows.🙂
@Rick-vm8bl
Жыл бұрын
Ah love this plane. This one used to be sitting on the tarmac at Hatfield Aerodrome long after they shut down. Every weekend as a kid we'd drive past it on the way to go shopping.
@matthewtemprell5422
Жыл бұрын
I really enjoy your tours round British aircraft and museums. I've always loved Duxford and cosford museums two of our best ones. The smaller museums are really interesting too.
@igormarinkovic1531
Жыл бұрын
Comets fuselage is just like Gulfstreams ...Incredible !
@henryvasquez8629
Жыл бұрын
Wao!! What a beautiful airplane
@lapipesmoker3751
Жыл бұрын
The circular windows were also part of the upgrade to distribute the forces on the fuselage more evenly. If I remember correctly, it was the corner of one of the windows that was the occasion for the catastrophic fuselage failure in the earlier model. What a great tour! Thank you.
@alanjm1234
Жыл бұрын
I think the film told the story it was the windows, but I've read that a hole cut for a radio antenna caused one of the crashes. Basically any stress riser could have been the point of origin, and certainly square corners are stress risers.
@anthsarin070497
Жыл бұрын
@alan mac the square windows were definitely the major cause very early on, after they were redesigned the comet proved to be many times more reliable and safe
@sainnt
5 ай бұрын
I never had the opportunity to fly on a Comet. If I did, I was too young to remember. I did have multiple flights on a 707, and I definitely remember those.
@karlhoward2737
10 ай бұрын
Another great plane I often flew back and forth from the UK to Cyprus in the 1960’s…very comfortable…I still recall the rather old fashioned cockpit…even back then , to my eyes…..lovely to fly in, seeing the Alps for the first time, looking out the large windows…..oh those were the days….lucky 5 year old….
@richardstuart325
Жыл бұрын
I made my first ever flight in BOAC Comet G-APDE. We left London Heathrow in the bitter winter of early 1963 and flew to to Bombay (now Mumbai) in India, stopping at Frankfurt, Damascus and Abadan. It was indeed noisy sitting next to the engines.
@flyonbyya
Жыл бұрын
Fantastic presentation !
@stephencopeland238
Жыл бұрын
Thankyou so VERY MUCH for this video. The Comet is my favourite aircraft of all time irrespective of my never traveling on one or the unfortunate accidents that in hindsight benefited the world aviation technology to be safe today. Thankyou so much once again - it's really and truly appreciated
@phil_nicholls
Жыл бұрын
Takes me back! I had my first ever flight deck visit on a Dan Air Comet IV when I was 7 years old, on our way to the Canaries. Passing the Pyrenees, the skipper had his feet up, reading a newspaper. He turned round, peering over the top of his half-moons, and said 'Don't touch anything!' I thought this was super cool, and it ignited my passion for aviation (that, and growing up, near Binbrook)! Some 50+ years later, and I'm now a skipper of the 787 with a rather well known British outfit. Nowhere near as cool as the Comet though!
@anthonypetty9288
Жыл бұрын
I've always considered the Comet to be a very beautiful design, especially with regards to the engines being incorporated into the wings. Not the best idea, but still very pretty. I remember my mother saying she flew on a B.O.A.C. Comet once, and she thought it was a wonderful experience.
@lhsilhs1512
Жыл бұрын
Love your videos. Beautiful narration and presentation.❤
@jasongarufi8187
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Paul for the great tour of this wonderful aircraft.
@tappan48
Жыл бұрын
I was nine years old when my family flew in a Comet from Merida Yucatan to LAX. Yes we survived, and we have home movies of the flight.
@perfectlyoutoforder2840
Жыл бұрын
Makes me jealous! Are you going to convert and upload some of the footage?
@Srinathji_Das
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for making these videos and documenting/sharind these dying marvels of engineering! ❤️
@cromulentparty
Жыл бұрын
Nice mate
@MitchZero9
Жыл бұрын
Cool vid. It is still a magnificent looking airliner!
@LULEKOSO
Жыл бұрын
Um designer aerodinâmico de estilo vintage. Um lindo jato.
@federicozimerman8167
5 ай бұрын
The engines integrated into the wings. Wow!
@sandervanderkammen9230
3 ай бұрын
Proved to be a very bad design which is why no other aircraft manufacturers used it.
@user-tn1vc1xz5d
Жыл бұрын
I love the sextants in the cockpit. I love old school tech. Fab plane, superb museum. Love all your videos.
@kennethgrindrod6438
Жыл бұрын
As a young lad living out in Malaya I recall one of these landing there my dad took some photos of it this was in KL in the late 50,s
@vanstory946
Жыл бұрын
Great video Paul! Your videos keep getting better and better and I always learn something new about the iconic aircraft you feature. Well done to the IWM Museum for preserving this classic and letting you film this video for us all on the internet!
@scotty6346
Жыл бұрын
The Comet 4 was one of the best looking airliners IMO.
@thewaythingsare8158
Жыл бұрын
We flew on the comet Sagittarius between RAF Lynham and Singapore where my father was stationed at Nee Soon in the Royal Engineers. I would have been 4 at the time and I can still recall the characteristic plasticky smell in the cabin.
@amorosogombe9650
Жыл бұрын
I've been there. Great museum in Duxford.♡
@rarevhsuploads4995
Жыл бұрын
I grew up in Hatfield around the corner from British Aerospace & DeHavilland Comets always held a special interest for me. I’ve never been to IWM Duxford although done most of the other IWM branches over the years.
@jayfleegle9455
Жыл бұрын
Great video, thank you
@melvyncox3361
Жыл бұрын
Been in and worked on this very Comet at Duxford.Fascinating.ln immaculate condition and well looked after,and a thorough insight in to the "Golden Years" of airliner operations👍
@jooei2810
Жыл бұрын
De Havilland Comet had rectangular windows which caused few crashes before they figured out that having round windows is a better design, reducing the fatigue on the corners of the window.
@ericadams3428
Жыл бұрын
Although the window shape was part of it, the main problem was the machining around the window frame which should have used glue as well as rivets but the way it was riveted weakened the structure.
@jooei2810
Жыл бұрын
@@ericadams3428 No square windows ever since though.
@Fifty8day
Жыл бұрын
The integrated engines look very attractive in my opinion it’s a pity they turned out to be impractical. Thanks Paul I’ve enjoyed every one of your videos. Thank you so much Peter
@oldmech619
Жыл бұрын
A friend of mine use to work on the engines. He hated it. Extremely difficult. This compare to the Being engine pylon mounts. This was a few years ago.
@gingermegs138
Жыл бұрын
Great Video Thanks Paul.
@johno9507
Жыл бұрын
3:27 The pointed section on the leading edge is a stall strip, this causes the inboard section of the wing to stall before the wing tips stalls, which allows the ailerons to remain effective as the wing looses lift.
@blatherskite9601
Жыл бұрын
Wondered about that. Thanks!
@bigabzboss
Жыл бұрын
Beautiful! I love this plane and how innovative Comet was. I love how the engines look like. So badass! The interior just felt like a plane from the 80s, not like the first jet engine airliner. (though I have no idea how turbine planes were at that time). thank you so much, this video really made me vibe. I first heard about the Comet a few years ago in a Mustard video, this time a real visit! hope I can go on day to England and visit this museum. Awesome!
@jeremypearson6852
Жыл бұрын
It still looks really cool with the engines built into the wing, even though its not practical.
@maskedavenger2578
Жыл бұрын
Flew on Dan Air Comets from Manchester to Reus ( Spain ) on holiday back in the 1970’s. Fantastic airliner & smoother than Boeing 707 ‘s I also got to fly on at the time .
@dufus7396
Жыл бұрын
Its a thing of beauty from any angle
@wernerdanler2742
Жыл бұрын
It was a good first effort at a high altitude passenger jet. That one must be a redesigned later model because the early ones that were prone to fatigue and crashing had rather square windows, as I recall. They got stress cracks at the corners of the windows after however number of cycles. I don't remember how many crashed all together, but there were a lot of lives lost. I came over here to the US in 1956 at 7 years old in one of those constellations. Hated it! Every adult smoking like a chimney constantly.
@tommcewan7936
Жыл бұрын
"It was a good first effort at a high altitude passenger jet." This, exactly - I think Douglas literally said later that if it hadn't happened to DeHavilland so everyone could learn to avoid it, it *would* have happened to their own first effort at a jet airliner. Whoever went first was basically doomed to be the lesson to everyone who came after. This has happened *so* many times in prestige engineering projects, and yet everyone still wants to be first at something - even though it's typically the *second* person to bring a product to the market who actually makes the money, and the pioneers who led the way for them so often end their days in poverty and obscurity.
@taxidude
Жыл бұрын
Flew to Majorca in a Dan Air Comet in 1974! A beautiful looking aircraft!
@Seminal_Ideas
Жыл бұрын
Thank you again Paul. Those oval windows look lovely from the inside. If only they'd went with them instead of the square ones of the early Comets the fatigue cracks might not have resulted in such tragedy. Great video as usual.
@sundar999
11 ай бұрын
The fatigue cracks didn't come from the windows I've heard
@randylahey1232
Жыл бұрын
The cockpit looks sick AF too, what a sexy plane
@Imnotplayinganymore
Жыл бұрын
A thoroughly modern aircraft, using a sextant like Ferdinand Magellan, lol. My father navigated a B17 using a sextant in WWII and he pilfered it after the war ended. I played with it as a kid. It was fascinating. He showed me how it worked by shooting some stars and referencing his charts. Years ago I was able to tour a B17 and sit at the navigators table. What a life he had at 18.
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