No Highway in the Sky
Plane Tales
English - March 13, 2017 00:06 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsAviation Leisure Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The DH Comet was the first jet airliner and was going to be a world beater until there were unexplained and sudden losses. The investigation that followed opened the eyes of the entire industry to the dangers of aircraft pressurisation and metal fatigue.
An enormous water tank was erected test the fuselage during repeated pressurisation runs.
The fuselage of G-AYLP which broke up in mid air.
Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to UK Gov, Imperial War Museum and Krelnik.
The DH Comet was the first jet airliner and was going to be a world beater until there were unexplained and sudden losses. The investigation that followed opened the eyes of the entire industry to the dangers of aircraft pressurisation and metal fatigue.
An enormous water tank was erected test the fuselage during repeated pressurisation runs.
The fuselage of G-AYLP which broke up in mid air.
Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to UK Gov, Imperial War Museum and Krelnik.