De Havilland’s 1930s equivalent of today’s bizjet is not ... 89, it is most certainly not a scaled-down Dragon Rapide as both the design and construction methods are very different. Firstly, where the ...

Advancements in technology, spurred by World War II, led to the development of jet planes like the Boeing 707 and De Havilland Comet — planes that could ... The midcentury modern design emerged in the ...

But the de Havilland Comet’s success was short-lived. A fatal design flaw, hidden in plain sight, turned square windows into a deadly weakness. Cracks formed, pressure built, and tragedy followed.

Progressive iterations resulted in design changes: more powerful Rolls Royce RA ... In order to reduce program risk and development costs, it employed the de Havilland Comet’s cockpit and forward ...

They made many mistakes along the way, but there were plenty of other design failures that you’ve probably ... There are many great things one can say about the De Havilland Comet, but the bad ...

The RAF bought into the program following the retirement of the BAe Nimrod R1, itself a derivative of a 1950s airliner the De Havilland Comet ... in the aircraft’s design.

Fatigue failure is a common challenge in machine design. For engineers and designers ... example to aid this is the 1954 crash of the De Havilland Comet. As the world’s first commercial jetliner ...

A crash with Manchester United Team defined an otherwise mid-century airliner Design Origins of the Airspeed ... offering turboprop power in a later version, de Havilland, increasingly focused on pure ...

Boeing made a notable and intriguing design choice. Unlike De Havilland, who embedded the Comet's four engines into the wing, causing drag, Boeing took a different approach that was first tested on ...

Think: cars with no airbags or anti-lock braking and possibly alarming handling characteristics, such as the world’s first commercial jet airliner, BOAC’s de Havilland Comet. One, flying from ...

The shape of airplane windows might seem arbitrary, but there’s actually a grim reason behind their design ... to the UK’s ill-fated de Havilland Comet 1 Aircraft, which experienced a spate ...