DH106 Comet 'Canopus' 'Fast Taxi Run' - Bruntingthorpe Cold War Jets (May 2018)

1963 De Havilland DH106 Comet 4C 'Canopus', serial number 6473, G-CDPA, formerly XS235, was the last Comet to remain flying and is now the only surviving Comet that is capable of running under its own power. It wears the colours that it had on retirement from military service with the Defence Test & Evaluation Organisation at Boscombe Down. It's seen here undergoing a 'fast taxi run' at Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome Proving Ground (formerly RAF Bruntingthorpe) during the 'Cold War Jets' aircraft exhibition day on 27th May 2018.
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[@petemaly8950]

6:26 & 7:35 World's 1st ground crew & spectator herding dog in action.

[@Coaljet]

Awesome - this is living history. I hope she takes to the skies again. Never ever say never.

[@j.jasonwentworth723]

I have seen two, at Miami International Airport in Florida. At "cockroach corner" (an old area of the airport, with buildings dating back to World War II), there was for decades a Comet parked on a concrete apron; the front half of its fuselage was down to bare metal, while the rear half was white with brown trim (including a brown stripe along the row of passenger windows). Once, in the early- to mid-1970s, a pale, light lime green Comet was briefly parked in that same area of the airport, directly in front of one of the old cargo-handling depot buildings. Wherever it had come from (possibly up from South America, my father had guessed), that Comet flew out very shortly afterward, and we never saw it again, unlike some foreign "regulars" that arrived at intervals.

[@alfepalfe]

Well it is a comet4 so it should not have the same prezuriasation issues as the other comets

[@loopygoopie1097]

you said it twice

[@gazza2933]

@@alfepalfe No and of course this type used successfully with many airlines during the 60s.

[@jonataseuuk]

I don't think is a good idea the aluminium skins is so thin is dangerous

[@kirbyvanduzer6565]

Nothing beats the sound of old turbojets I live in America and I’m fascinated by it I’m a big fan of aircraft of many types it sounds awesome turbojets may be underpowered during takeoff but once in the sky they were faster than modern turbofans hopefully this comet will be airworthy someday and I’d love to see it fly even if it is on KZbin

[@salisburycameraclub8265]

I flew 400 hours on this comet SX235 and XW626 both based at Boscombe down as trails aircraft. During this time I flew over the North pole testing Inertial navigation platforms and early GPS systems

[@ApocalypticWaffles]

legend

[@Afghan47]

😲 amazing 👏

[@WeMuckAround]

What an incredible life you must have lived!

[@Roland8879]

My late father was a BOAC captain, I had many flights with him in the jump seat, always an experience.

[@maskedavenger2578]

I flew on a Dan Air Comet back in 1976 ,from Manchester to Reus in Spain & back to Manchester 2 weeks later. Smoothest flight I ever had on board a Jet Airliner . Better than the British Airtours Boeing 707 I flew on about a year later .

[@taxidude]

@@maskedavenger2578 I flew in a Dan Air Comet from Glasgow to Palma with my dad back in 1974. My first time on a plane! I was 13. I think they look better than anything since perhaps with the exception of Concorde.

[@maskedavenger2578]

@@taxidude I never particularly thought the Concorde was a looker . If I had to choose another airliner for looks ,it would have to be the Lockheed Super Constellation prop liner ,or the Vickers VC 10 .

[@gemspotting6252]

A truly brilliant plane that deserved so much more success than it achieved - it taught all manufacturers valuable lessons in airliner design and metal fatigue at great cost to DeHavilland - The Rolls Avon powered 4c was a fast and efficient machine for its time with great takeoff capability- unfortunately by then Boeing had shown the world the future with the fantastic 707 - a plane that owes a huge amount to the Comet

[@sirjanin]

The comet is a beautiful plane. The design, the shape of the wings and the engines integrated into the wings make it look futuristic, even more futuristic than some planes from today

[@sirjanin]

Yo quote, i know that the plane was unsafe and that having the engines integrated into the wings maked a lot of noise inside the cabin and all that stuff but come on guys it its such a really beautiful and elegant plane

[@TimSmyth23]

Excellent! But that poor bmibaby 737 just dumped in the woods 😥

[@w00llee14]

How could you tell it was a BMIBaby 737? They used to have a very distinctive livery.

[@bukasb]

It was pretty long, I thought it was a 707.

[@alexpaumen3937]

I could only imagine how loud that thing would be without hushkits.

[@beyergarret123]

My Dad worked at De Havilland Hatfield in the 50s/60s as an engineer , we lived more or less in between DeHavillands and the Handley Page factory, about 3 miles or so in either direction, there was always something interesting flying around the area back then!

[@Treasureson78RPM]

Truly amazing and beautiful airplane! It was way of it's time during it's a maiden flight back in 1949 and commercial introduction in 1952. The last Comet jetliner in running condition. It last flew some time back in 1997. It's wonderful to see that it is still in running condition to the present day thanks to a really dedicated maintenance crew of volunteers. I wish that their dream of seeing the comet fly again will come true.

[@opdd741]

WOW, what a sight. Only in England could such a thing happen, there is even a Dog on the Taxi-way in front of the Comet. Beautiful.

[@HighFlight]

Sadly it's unlikely to happen again as the whole runway and aircraft movement areas have now been leased to Cox Automotive, who have no interest in aviation, so that they can store thousands and thousands of unwanted newly manufactured cars that the manufacturers are busy churning out for no reason, or nearly new cars that car lease and rental companies cannot use. As far as I know the Comet is now parked with other aircraft in a small corner of the site that may become a museum, but it's unlikely to move again and is exposed to the elements.😪

[@opdd741]

@@HighFlight Gosh that is awful news. Is there no other site we can move these Aircraft too? Nothing is impossible n I am sure people would rally round to move these Aircraft. This place is/was unique.

[@HighFlight]

@@opdd741 Sadly I think that the cost of dismantling and transporting such a large aircraft may preclude that. 2 of the Buccaneers that were there have been moved to Kemble and still run there. The larger aircraft, Comet, Nimrod, Victor, and others are now parked in an area of the site that's still owned by the Walton family and I think there's an intention to open as a museum along with the Lightning's, but not the same as having them living and breathing. Even worse, I was wrong about the airfield being leased as it appears that it's now effectively owned by Cox Automotive's principal controlling shareholder another multinational company, in turn owned by another. Unfortunately money rules!

[@petemaly8950]

6:26 & 7:35 World's 1st ground crew & spectator herding dog in action.

[@joguard5940]

Ah quelle ligne, quelle coupe, quelle élégance, il faudrait refabriquer exactement le même de nos jours avec les matériaux d'aujourd'hui et vous savez tous pourquoi !!! Ah what a line, what a cut, what elegance, we should make exactly the same one again these days with today's materials and you all know why!!!

[@dodietheprodie]

Fabulous aircraft flew on a Dan Air one from Edinburgh to Alicante in 78 great experience just a shame not got airworthiness certificate one of the best flights I've ever been on smooth as a proverbial hot knife through butter.

[@trishayamada807]

Such a gorgeous jetliner. I think it looks futuristic; while being the first commercial jet airliner.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

The first successful jet airliner was the Boeing 707.

[@lewissteele9553]

Sander Van der Kammen He said the first commercial jet airliner, not the first successful one.

[@hermenegildoribentrop9406]

Gorgeous?, really?. Was the coffin of many passengers.

[@trishayamada807]

@@hermenegildoribentrop9406 yes it’s a gorgeous aircraft. I think the Boeing 747 is too. I guess any aircraft types that have been in fatal crashes can’t be gorgeous aircraft? What about cars? What about horses? What about other modes of transport? They are all not gorgeous because they have been in disasters, tragedies, accidents?

[@ironic8340]

@@hermenegildoribentrop9406 You know that it was the first reaction plane?, from there literally every manufacturer learned what to do and what not to, the mother of the jets

[@dicasuteis955]

Thanks of the video! 😊😊😊

[@danieleregoli812]

I love Canopus. Beautiful thing. Living history.

[@knightflightvideo]

Beautiful sight, sound and video! I didn't know that exists a airworthy Comet. Thanks for posting! :)

[@HighFlight]

Thanks. Sadly it isn't airworthy, just ground running. Hopefully it will get air beneath its wings again one day?

[@knightflightvideo]

U're welcome! That would be wonderful. :-))

[@Coaljet]

@@HighFlight It would be living aviation history. A very noble goal.

[@cdills3454]

So it's an oversized and overpowered bus now, lol.

[@Coaljet]

@@cdills3454 Nah, it's just playing one. :)

[@type2523]

It’s great that it’s not rotting in the museum.

[@Jack-bs6zb]

type2523 … they don’t ‘rot’ in museums … on the contrary they get preserved.

[@andreaprodan5616]

Flew unaccompanied back and forth from London to Rome in Dan Air Comet mk IV in the early seventies. Just getting on the plane to that massive whining sound...and the smell of high octane fuel...was a rush of adrenalin for a10 yr. old!

[@HighFlight]

That sounds like great fun. The Comet 4 that's in the museum at IWM Duxford is ex Dan Air. One of 48 that they had operating from Gatwick - maybe you flew on that one?www.britairliners.org/airliner-detail?type=de-havilland-dh106-comet-4&id=37

[@andreaprodan5616]

@@HighFlight Could well be! I flew on several! Also used to go 'Court Line' on the same route. My favourite airline of all! Thanks for the link!

[@SamsungTab-zq7rk]

@@andreaprodan5616 Court Line had Bac 1-11 aircraft .. not 'Comets mate.. Get your facts right old chap

[@SamsungTab-zq7rk]

This aircraft should have remained in Dan Air Colours..

[@SamsungTab-zq7rk]

@@HighFlight I flew to Tenerife Los Rodeos airport in November 1970 with Dan Air GAPDC COMET 4. With Clarkson Holidays from London Gatwick .. Great flight with liquors and hot towels served after dinner and real cutlery.. Those were the days.. Eat your heart out Easy jet and Ryanair.. Compared to Dan Air , you're rubbish!

[@sgipower]

great video, very professional. Thanks for sharing it.

[@HighFlight]

Thankyou, it's my pleasure. I'm pleased that you enjoyed it. More to follow!

[@lardyify]

I didn’t expect much but I thought I would at least see a fast taxi run.

[@ricklosangeles5043]

Perhaps this can be an upcoming series "Plane Savers - UK"?

[@grahamrandle6458]

When it was at Boscombe Down I used cadge flights in it and enjoyed every one of them and being allowed to sit in the sharp end

[@andreaprodan5616]

Truly a beauty. And historically very important as the mother of all commercial jets!!!

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

The _Comet Disaster_ remains the worst engineering failure commercial aviation history... a truly shameful chapter in British history, a story of corruption, incompetence and criminal negligence. The real tragedy of the Comet Disaster was that it could have been easily prevented if de Havilland had simply followed well-known and understood industry standards. No one at de Havilland was ever made to answer for the lives lost and there is no monument for the people that were killed by the _Comet Disaster_

[@petemaly8950]

​@@sandervanderkammen9230 ​​​@sandervanderkammen9230 Kharzeestan Krappenz DiktorBummer Jurkzxoffenz etc and co - they should note good with much awestruckness & many extreme wondermentals. *UPDATE MORE BREAKING NEWS ETC* *_It's interesting that some of the aircraft on the list should really have been noticeably safer than the Comet due to being a similar type but of much later design & manufacture but they definately were not safer._* How things were back then - *_Accident losses - % of aircraft built._* DeHavilland Comet 4 UK 14% DeHavilland Comet all mks 17% Vickers VC10 UK 5% *_The DH Comet had better safety than or similar safety to many other commercial passenger aircraft of a similar era_* Douglas DC-1 99% Douglas DC-2 47% Douglas DC-3 30% Douglas DC-4 26% Boeing s300 72% Boeing 307 70% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed Electra Turboprop 29% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Sud Aviation Caravelle 15% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% A comparison of more recent aircraft. Accident losses comparison examples. 1970s - 1980s % of total Aircraft built Similar aircraft type, date / decade, useage, size. Biz Jets BAe-125-800 1.7 % Beechcraft Beechjet 400 2.2 % Cessna 550 Citation II 7.1 % Learjet 35 / 36 12 % Beechcraft 1900 6% Dassault Falcon 10 11.5% Aérospatiale SN.601 22.5% Medium size jets / Turboprops. BAe-146 5.1% Fokker 100 6% McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 9.5% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% Beechcraft, Fokker, McDonnell Douglass, Learjet, Fairchild, Aerospatiale, Canadair, Convair companies defunct. All Comets, including some Comet 1s, had full civilian use certification at some point after 1954, civilian use certification only being withdrawn after commercial flying stopped. Examples were flying until 1997 - one example did a signals research global circumnavigation flight series in 1993 via Australia virtually without a rest travelling 28000 miles, only had an ice warning indicator issue during the flights. *The DH Comet - World Firsts.* 1st gas turbine jet powered airliner. 1st high altitude 8psi pressurised full fuselage length passenger cabin airliner, not a trivial feature as structure strength required for pressurisation considerably exceeded strength required for normal flying stress. Nobody else had done anything similar before the Comet. The b-47 used 2 relatively small, heavily built pressurised modules (the aircraft where 6 had their wings fold up in 2 months while flying & some had their wings fall off while parked). The 1937 Boeing piston engined airliner pressurised passenger cabin was pressurised to 2 psi only - in fact that could easily be done as the normal unpressurized fuselage cabin structure strength for flying stresses only was all that was needed to be adequate so no significant weight increase issues needed addressing. 1st all hydraulically powered flying surface controls & actuators airliner with under carriage wheel disk brakes + ABS. 1st jet airliner to cross the Atlantic. 1st jet aircraft to do a world circumnavigation flights series. *Of course De Havilland had prior experience building many all metal construction airframe aircraft including thousands of jet powered fighter aircraft that were primarily of metal construction with pressurised cockpits & jet engines built by De-Havilland & we know the world's first all metal construction airframe airliner was built in England in the 1920s by Handley Page.* *_De Havilland did indeed always work to better than industry standards at the time, no evidence of negligence ever being produced in relation to the DH Comet._* The course of De Havilland & the general UK aerospace industry sector was not affected even slightly by the DH Comet. *_Other interesting World firsts_* _World's first turboprop aircraft._ *Vickers Viscount Turboprop Airliner 1947.* *A 1945 Gloster Meteor Aircraft with Turboprop Gas Turbine Engine.* They might like to answer these questions. *Which airline has just ordered* *60 RR England Trent XWB Engines* *& What aircraft are the engines for?* _Bonus question for 10 points._ Which country has the *World's Highest Combined Per Capita* *Nuclear + Defence + Aerospace Sector Activity?* 👍 Cheers 🙂 . .... . ... . ... .. ... .. . . . . ...... Ivcxivcxcxcvxcviixcvvvcccc

[@petemaly8950]

​​@@sandervanderkammen9230 ​​ Kharzeestan Krappenz DiktorBummer Jurkzxoffenz etc and co - they should all note good with much awe & extreme wonder. *UPDATE MORE BREAKING NEWS ETC* The Comet was designed with military use in mind, Nimrod work started at De Havilland in 1953. The committee did not find hundreds of fatal flaws or evidence of design defects, structural defects, defective materials or shoddy workmanship. Ripstop provision was included. Claimed incidents did not involve cracks starting from window corners. The engine & engine intake position had advantages, were not flaws or fatal flaws & were not the cause of any incidents involving any Comet or Nimrod aircraft. Nearly all changes before the Comet 4 were just in case or were previously scheduled improvements. Bow-wing & the 707 story (see b-47 wing folding incidents) is the result of global economics & the well protected & very large domestic US airliner market & active support from the UK with for instance proposed Competing airliners from Vickers & DH being blocked. The 707 was of course a much larger aircraft which as a stressed skin metal airframe aircraft would require a thicker skin anyway. They got lucky at the time essentially. Bow-wing is the result of the large & well protected US domestic airliner market The fate of De Havilland was due to Govt policy Aerospace sector rationalisation & global economics, it was nothing to do with the Comet. A comprehensive, thorough & protracted testing program was carried out on the prototype & it's assemblies. Of course the Comet did indeed have Ripstop stop provision. De Havilland (Of England) Comets were not grounded after 1970 due to structural problems. *_It's interesting that some of the aircraft on the list should really have been noticeably safer than the Comet due to being a similar type but of much later design & manufacture but they definately were not safer._* How things were back then - *_Accident losses - % of aircraft built._* DeHavilland Comet 4 UK 14% DeHavilland Comet all mks 17% Vickers VC10 UK 5% *_The DH Comet had better safety than or similar safety to many other commercial passenger aircraft of a similar era_* Douglas DC-1 99% Douglas DC-2 47% Douglas DC-3 30% Douglas DC-4 26% Boeing s300 72% Boeing 307 70% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed L-049/149 Constellation 30% Lockheed Electra Turboprop 29% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Sud Aviation Caravelle 15% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% A comparison of more recent aircraft. Accident losses comparison examples. 1970s - 1980s % of total Aircraft built Similar aircraft type, date / decade, useage, size. Biz Jets BAe-125-800 1.7 % Beechcraft Beechjet 400 2.2 % Cessna 550 Citation II 7.1 % Learjet 35 / 36 12 % Beechcraft 1900 6% Dassault Falcon 10 11.5% Aérospatiale SN.601 22.5% Medium size jets / Turboprops. BAe-146 5.1% Fokker 100 6% McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 9.5% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% Beechcraft, Fokker, McDonnell Douglass, Learjet, Fairchild, Aerospatiale, Canadair, Convair companies defunct. All Comets, including some Comet 1s, had full civilian use certification at some point after 1954, civilian use certification only being withdrawn after commercial flying stopped. Examples were flying until 1997 - one example did a signals research global circumnavigation flight series in 1993 via Australia virtually without a rest travelling 28000 miles, only had an ice warning indicator issue during the flights. *The DH Comet - World Firsts.* 1st gas turbine jet powered airliner. 1st high altitude 8psi pressurised full fuselage length passenger cabin airliner, not a trivial feature as structure strength required for pressurisation considerably exceeded strength required for normal flying stress. Nobody else had done anything similar before the Comet. The b-47 used 2 relatively small, heavily built pressurised modules (the aircraft where 6 had their wings fold up in 2 months while flying & some had their wings fall off while parked). The 1937 Boeing piston engined airliner pressurised passenger cabin was pressurised to 2 psi only - in fact that could easily be done as the normal unpressurized fuselage cabin structure strength for flying stresses only was all that was needed to be adequate so no significant weight increase issues needed addressing. 1st all hydraulically powered flying surface controls & actuators airliner with under carriage wheel disk brakes + ABS. 1st jet airliner to cross the Atlantic. 1st jet aircraft to do a world circumnavigation flights series. *Of course De Havilland had prior experience building many all metal construction airframe aircraft including thousands of jet powered fighter aircraft that were primarily of metal construction with pressurised cockpits & jet engines built by De-Havilland & we know the world's first all metal construction airframe airliner was built in England in the 1920s by Handley Page.* *_De Havilland did indeed always work to better than industry standards at the time, used up to date knowledge for the design & no evidence of negligence or criminal negligence was ever produced in relation to the DH Comet._* The course of De Havilland & the general UK aerospace industry sector was not affected even slightly by the DH Comet. The course of national aerospace sectors obviously being similar & inevitable in many countries. *_Other interesting World firsts_* _World's first turboprop aircraft._ *Vickers Viscount Turboprop Airliner 1947.* *A 1945 Gloster Meteor Aircraft with Turboprop Gas Turbine Engine.* They might like to answer these questions. *Which airline has just ordered* *60 RR England Trent XWB Engines* *& What aircraft are the engines for?* _Bonus question for 10 points._ Which country has the *World's Highest Combined Per Capita* *Nuclear + Defence + Aerospace Sector Activity?* 👍 & 🙂 & of course 😎 indeed. *C H E E R S* & without doubt - _Toodle_ -PIP- *Old* *_C H A P._* This line left not blank intentionally. . .... . ... .. . . ... .. ... .... .... ............ ..... . Ivcxivcxiv cxcxcvccb xcxiivxccxv ccvvcvvv vivcxiccvcc vxxccvvv.

[@gazza2933]

Beautiful! 👍

[@royalanania3306]

It's a beautiful ❤️ aircraft ,and it's engine configuration is really unique. Save her

[@ianjameshodges1509]

My favourite British built aircraft.. Flew to Tenerife North- Los Rodeos Airport in November 1970 with Dan Air on my first package holiday (Clarksons Holidays) abroad.. This fine example should be preserved in Dan Air livery as the last company to use the Comet 4 / C4B and Comet 4c. I remember the last DAN AIR Comet 4c flight out of London Gatwick in 1981 GBDIX ..

[@ianjameshodges1509]

Yes.. Dan Air London GAPDC C4 .. LGW / TFN NOV 1970.. GAPDB sister aircraft was the first Comet 4 to cross the Atlantic and of course in fine BOAC livery out of London Heathrow until replaced by the Boeing 707 with more capacity and cheaper fuel costs in late 1960's .. However many Comet 4's flew until 1981 out of Gatwick Airport for Dan Air London.

[@TheMenon49]

As a schoolkid, I'd flown as an unaccompanied minor on BOAC's Comet from Bombay to Madras

[@ST-cx9bt]

And still alive to comment about it. Little did you know your family was playing Russian roulette.

[@bmc9504]

@@ST-cx9bt I did the same with the DC-10s, meh.

[@tamiwu0346]

I rode on a southwest 737 max 8 once, can I join the cool kids club too?

[@akunamatatalopez3963]

Dam i need to meet with ya'll and buy lottery😄😄😄

[@TheMenon49]

@@ST-cx9bt Hahahahaha! The Comet I'd flown in in 1962 was the improved Comet-4. She's had a good record but then Boeing came out with their beautiful lady called Boeing 707 and De Havilland had probably realised that their Comet-4 was no match for this stunner!

[@danieleregoli812]

...and in the background a Rover P6??? OMG, that is wet-dream come true....

[@paulluce2557]

I didn't know this plane was still in the UK. The last I heard there was a likelihood of her being bought by a collector on other side of the pond.

[@HighFlight]

The airfield where this Comet is located has now closed for any future aircraft ground running operations and is being turned into a 'car park' for unwanted and fast becoming worthless, new cars. The owner of the site, David Walton, has retained an area of land to allow him to keep this Comet, a Nimrod and a Victor, all of which he owns, at the site. Along with a pair of Lightnings owned by another group. Everything else is either being moved or scrapped. Some aircraft, including a pair of Buccaneers, have gone to Kemble and some others elsewhere. Given that no airframe that cannot be flown out, its safe from the scrap man, it would probably be a good thing if a collector in the USA did buy this Comet. Especially if it could also then be kept in a very dry area and/or indoors and/or restored?

[@Firebrand55]

What happened to the Comet gate guard at RAF Lyneham?

[@hmbpnz]

Who's Sargeant Buzzkill over there flapping his arms around at everyone?

[@RadioactiveSaddam]

I love the 50's design with the "hidden" engines in the wings. So smooth.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

And its fatal flaw...

[@Endidixknsej]

It has the best safety record of any plane ever ​@@sandervanderkammen9230

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

@@Endidixknsej The Comet is the worst jet airliner in history.

[@Endidixknsej]

@@sandervanderkammen9230 no wrong

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

@@Endidixknsej *No jet airliner in history has a loss rate higher than the Comet and is has the highest fatalities per flight and per passenger mile.*

[@Claro1993]

What a bummer, I was expecting it to do a take-off.

[@HighFlight]

Sorry, it'd be nice if it could!

[@seanwalsh9814]

It's sadly unable to take off, 60 years does stuff to the engine.

[@seanwalsh9814]

Not to mention certification from companies like the EUCLA and the FAA as well as fuel costs for the over 65 year old Avon's and operating costs of such an inefficient jetliner - sadly, the twinjets shall triumph.

[@leesmith8366]

Currently in lock down in know but does anybody know if another taxi run is being planned? Thanks

[@420architecMindNDesign]

One of my favorite looking airplanes

[@joecombs7468]

Would have been nice to see it fly

[@orlandoariel6245]

Mama mía... meravigliosa !!! 👏👏👏

[@triggeredcat120]

The most modern looking classic plane. Integrating the engines INTO the wings make it so sleek.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

A very, very old looking airplane even when it was new.. In particular the 1930's Art Deco empennage. The integrated engines were unique because it was also a fatal flaw that killed many people. No aircraft use a this type of engine placement today because it is horribly unsafe and inefficient.

[@triggeredcat120]

@@sandervanderkammen9230 I agree.

[@aviationlba747]

@@sandervanderkammen9230 The engine placement had nothing to do with the crashes. It was due to the fuselage suffering from metal fatigue, which in itself was worsened by the square windows.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

@@aviationlba747 *You don't seem to know much about the **_Comet Disaster_* *The first Comet destroyed in 1952 and fatal crash in 1953 was due to the flawed engine design.*

[@aviationlba747]

@@sandervanderkammen9230 No, it was due to metal fatigue caused by the aircraft being repeatedly pressurised and depressurised. The Comet was a pioneer for jet airliner technology, whether you like it or not. If De Havilland hadn’t made these mistakes with the Comet, it would have been Boeing, Douglas, Sud Aviation of Tupolev that made them.

[@richardjoganah1871]

gorgoues airliner great video my favorite british jet airliner i love it to see fly again 😊😊😊

[@HighFlight]

Thanks. Yes, that would be good. I think they have an ambition to fly her, but whether they will I think is unlikely - unfortunately?

[@richardjoganah1871]

sad about the british aircraft companys dont exists thats very sad 😢😢

[@HighFlight]

They do in a way - in the form of British Aerospace now BAe Systems. Unfortunately the cost of developing new aircraft is just too much for a small company and in some cases too much for a single country?

[@richardjoganah1871]

i agree bae systems is very good company 😊😊

[@tsu8003]

It's beyond me how France and Sweden can still both independently manufacturer their own aircraft but we cant!

[@mcdonnell-douglasdc-1056]

The roar of its engines signalled the arrival of a new era - it heralded the dawn of the jet age in commercial air transportation.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

Signalled the demise of de Havilland and the decline of the British aircraft industry

[@petemaly8950]

​@@sandervanderkammen9230 ​​​@sandervanderkammen9230 Kharzeestan Krappenz DiktorBummer Jurkzxoffenz etc and co - they should note good with much awestruckness & many extreme wondermentals. *UPDATE MORE BREAKING NEWS ETC* *_It's interesting that some of the aircraft on the list should really have been noticeably safer than the Comet due to being a similar type but of much later design & manufacture but they definately were not safer._* How things were back then - *_Accident losses - % of aircraft built._* DeHavilland Comet 4 UK 14% DeHavilland Comet all mks 17% Vickers VC10 UK 5% *_The DH Comet had better safety than or similar safety to many other commercial passenger aircraft of a similar era_* Douglas DC-1 99% Douglas DC-2 47% Douglas DC-3 30% Douglas DC-4 26% Boeing s300 72% Boeing 307 70% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed Electra Turboprop 29% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Sud Aviation Caravelle 15% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% A comparison of more recent aircraft. Accident losses comparison examples. 1970s - 1980s % of total Aircraft built Similar aircraft type, date / decade, useage, size. Biz Jets BAe-125-800 1.7 % Beechcraft Beechjet 400 2.2 % Cessna 550 Citation II 7.1 % Learjet 35 / 36 12 % Beechcraft 1900 6% Dassault Falcon 10 11.5% Aérospatiale SN.601 22.5% Medium size jets / Turboprops. BAe-146 5.1% Fokker 100 6% McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 9.5% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% Beechcraft, Fokker, McDonnell Douglass, Learjet, Fairchild, Aerospatiale, Canadair, Convair companies defunct. All Comets, including some Comet 1s, had full civilian use certification at some point after 1954, civilian use certification only being withdrawn after commercial flying stopped. Examples were flying until 1997 - one example did a signals research global circumnavigation flight series in 1993 via Australia virtually without a rest travelling 28000 miles, only had an ice warning indicator issue during the flights. *The DH Comet - World Firsts.* 1st gas turbine jet powered airliner. 1st high altitude 8psi pressurised full fuselage length passenger cabin airliner, not a trivial feature as structure strength required for pressurisation considerably exceeded strength required for normal flying stress. Nobody else had done anything similar before the Comet. The b-47 used 2 relatively small, heavily built pressurised modules (the aircraft where 6 had their wings fold up in 2 months while flying & some had their wings fall off while parked). The 1937 Boeing piston engined airliner pressurised passenger cabin was pressurised to 2 psi only - in fact that could easily be done as the normal unpressurized fuselage cabin structure strength for flying stresses only was all that was needed to be adequate so no significant weight increase issues needed addressing. 1st all hydraulically powered flying surface controls & actuators airliner with under carriage wheel disk brakes + ABS. 1st jet airliner to cross the Atlantic. 1st jet aircraft to do a world circumnavigation flights series. *Of course De Havilland had prior experience building many all metal construction airframe aircraft including thousands of jet powered fighter aircraft that were primarily of metal construction with pressurised cockpits & jet engines built by De-Havilland & we know the world's first all metal construction airframe airliner was built in England in the 1920s by Handley Page.* *_De Havilland did indeed always work to better than industry standards at the time, no evidence of negligence ever being produced in relation to the DH Comet._* The course of De Havilland & the general UK aerospace industry sector was not affected even slightly by the DH Comet. *_Other interesting World firsts_* _World's first turboprop aircraft._ *Vickers Viscount Turboprop Airliner 1947.* *A 1945 Gloster Meteor Aircraft with Turboprop Gas Turbine Engine.* They might like to answer these questions. *Which airline has just ordered* *60 RR England Trent XWB Engines* *& What aircraft are the engines for?* _Bonus question for 10 points._ Which country has the *World's Highest Combined Per Capita* *Nuclear + Defence + Aerospace Sector Activity?* 👍 Cheers 🙂 . .... . . ..... Ivcxivvvvvvvvccccc

[@AccessAir]

Where was the high speed taxi??

[@SilverXTikal]

Such a cool plane. I hope once planes become electric they go back to this slim “in-wing” engine design. We were so futuristic in my grandma’s time. Now we’re just cheap

[@arielelijah1282]

When you ride that plane and you thought it was an engine and taxi test but when you woke up you’re in the air. You: Damn here we go again

[@tristanacosta407]

Even now, this plane still looks rather sleeker than modern jets these days.

[@8o86]

yes. i think it's due to the engines integrated in wings

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

Looks very old, in particular the empennage... very 1920s Art Deco style

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

​@@8o86The engines actually date the design to the 1940... no other aircraft uses this fatally flawed design

[@petemaly8950]

​@@sandervanderkammen9230 Kharzeestan Krappenz DiktorBummer Jurkzxoffenz etc and co - they should note good with much awestruckness & many extreme wondermentals. *UPDATE MORE BREAKING NEWS ETC* *_It's interesting that some of the aircraft on the list should really have been noticeably safer than the Comet due to being a similar type but of much later design & manufacture but they definately were not safer._* How things were back then - *_Accident losses - % of aircraft built._* DeHavilland Comet 4 UK 14% DeHavilland Comet all mks 17% Vickers VC10 UK 5% *_The DH Comet had better safety than or similar safety to many other commercial passenger aircraft of a similar era_* Douglas DC-1 99% Douglas DC-2 47% Douglas DC-3 30% Douglas DC-4 26% Boeing s300 72% Boeing 307 70% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed Electra Turboprop 29% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Sud Aviation Caravelle 15% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% A comparison of more recent aircraft. Accident losses comparison examples. 1970s - 1980s % of total Aircraft built Similar aircraft type, date / decade, useage, size. Biz Jets BAe-125-800 1.7 % Beechcraft Beechjet 400 2.2 % Cessna 550 Citation II 7.1 % Learjet 35 / 36 12 % Beechcraft 1900 6% Dassault Falcon 10 11.5% Aérospatiale SN.601 22.5% Medium size jets / Turboprops. BAe-146 5.1% Fokker 100 6% McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 9.5% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% Beechcraft, Fokker, McDonnell Douglass, Learjet, Fairchild, Aerospatiale, Canadair, Convair companies defunct. All Comets, including some Comet 1s, had full civilian use certification at some point after 1954, civilian use certification only being withdrawn after commercial flying stopped. Examples were flying until 1997 - one example did a signals research global circumnavigation flight series in 1993 via Australia virtually without a rest travelling 28000 miles, only had an ice warning indicator issue during the flights. *The DH Comet - World Firsts.* 1st gas turbine jet powered airliner. 1st high altitude 8psi pressurised full fuselage length passenger cabin airliner, not a trivial feature as structure strength required for pressurisation considerably exceeded strength required for normal flying stress. Nobody else had done anything similar before the Comet. The b-47 used 2 relatively small, heavily built pressurised modules (the aircraft where 6 had their wings fold up in 2 months while flying & some had their wings fall off while parked). The 1937 Boeing piston engined airliner pressurised passenger cabin was pressurised to 2 psi only - in fact that could easily be done as the normal unpressurized fuselage cabin structure strength for flying stresses only was all that was needed to be adequate so no significant weight increase issues needed addressing. 1st all hydraulically powered flying surface controls & actuators airliner with under carriage wheel disk brakes + ABS. 1st jet airliner to cross the Atlantic. 1st jet aircraft to do a world circumnavigation flights series. *Of course De Havilland had prior experience building many all metal construction airframe aircraft including thousands of jet powered fighter aircraft that were primarily of metal construction with pressurised cockpits & jet engines built by De-Havilland & we know the world's first all metal construction airframe airliner was built in England in the 1920s by Handley Page.* *_De Havilland did indeed always work to better than industry standards at the time, no evidence of negligence ever being produced in relation to the DH Comet._* The course of De Havilland & the general UK aerospace industry sector was not affected even slightly by the DH Comet. *_Other interesting World firsts_* _World's first turboprop aircraft._ *Vickers Viscount Turboprop Airliner 1947.* *A 1945 Gloster Meteor Aircraft with Turboprop Gas Turbine Engine.* They might like to answer these questions. *Which airline has just ordered* *60 RR England Trent XWB Engines* *& What aircraft are the engines for?* _Bonus question for 10 points._ Which country has the *World's Highest Combined Per Capita* *Nuclear + Defence + Aerospace Sector Activity?* 👍 Cheers 🙂 . .... . ... . ... .. ... ... .. Ivcxivcxivcxiivxvivcxi

[@type2523]

Is it still ok or did it get scrapped ( they scrap all the planes there that why I ask )

[@HighFlight]

I don't know. I understand that there are plans for an aircraft museum at Bruntingthorpe on land owned by and with the aircraft belonging to David Walton, plus the Lightning Preservation Group. A statement was issued saying that none of the aircraft owned by David Walton will be destroyed. I don't know who owns the Comet though? On the plus side, I can find no information online to suggest that the Comet has been or will be scrapped.

[@ChaklitTea]

in Kuwait we didn’t see any jet aircraft until maybe 1964 when Kuwait airways got them

[@MrPiggywig]

Great video of an iconic aircraft. Question: why were the red beacons not flashing?

[@HighFlight]

I can only guess why the red beacon's weren't flashing. Either the crew forgot to turn them on or they weren't working?

[@tomyfamily1]

Can anyone tell me if the Nimrod was based off the Comet? I see so many features on the Comet that the Nimrod had as well.

[@HighFlight]

Yes, the Nimrod was built around the Comet airframe.

[@salisburycameraclub8265]

Yes

[@seanwalsh9814]

The Nimrod to the Comet was like the Beluga to the A300

[@Khalidsvt101]

it paved the way for other jet planes

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

It paved the way for air crash investigation...

[@petemaly8950]

​@@sandervanderkammen9230 ​​​@sandervanderkammen9230 Kharzeestan Krappenz DiktorBummer Jurkzxoffenz etc and co - they should note good with much awestruckness & many extreme wondermentals. *UPDATE MORE BREAKING NEWS ETC* *_It's interesting that some of the aircraft on the list should really have been noticeably safer than the Comet due to being a similar type but of much later design & manufacture but they definately were not safer._* How things were back then - *_Accident losses - % of aircraft built._* DeHavilland Comet 4 UK 14% DeHavilland Comet all mks 17% Vickers VC10 UK 5% *_The DH Comet had better safety than or similar safety to many other commercial passenger aircraft of a similar era_* Douglas DC-1 99% Douglas DC-2 47% Douglas DC-3 30% Douglas DC-4 26% Boeing s300 72% Boeing 307 70% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed Electra Turboprop 29% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Sud Aviation Caravelle 15% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% A comparison of more recent aircraft. Accident losses comparison examples. 1970s - 1980s % of total Aircraft built Similar aircraft type, date / decade, useage, size. Biz Jets BAe-125-800 1.7 % Beechcraft Beechjet 400 2.2 % Cessna 550 Citation II 7.1 % Learjet 35 / 36 12 % Beechcraft 1900 6% Dassault Falcon 10 11.5% Aérospatiale SN.601 22.5% Medium size jets / Turboprops. BAe-146 5.1% Fokker 100 6% McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 9.5% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% Beechcraft, Fokker, McDonnell Douglass, Learjet, Fairchild, Aerospatiale, Canadair, Convair companies defunct. All Comets, including some Comet 1s, had full civilian use certification at some point after 1954, civilian use certification only being withdrawn after commercial flying stopped. Examples were flying until 1997 - one example did a signals research global circumnavigation flight series in 1993 via Australia virtually without a rest travelling 28000 miles, only had an ice warning indicator issue during the flights. *The DH Comet - World Firsts.* 1st gas turbine jet powered airliner. 1st high altitude 8psi pressurised full fuselage length passenger cabin airliner, not a trivial feature as structure strength required for pressurisation considerably exceeded strength required for normal flying stress. Nobody else had done anything similar before the Comet. The b-47 used 2 relatively small, heavily built pressurised modules (the aircraft where 6 had their wings fold up in 2 months while flying & some had their wings fall off while parked). The 1937 Boeing piston engined airliner pressurised passenger cabin was pressurised to 2 psi only - in fact that could easily be done as the normal unpressurized fuselage cabin structure strength for flying stresses only was all that was needed to be adequate so no significant weight increase issues needed addressing. 1st all hydraulically powered flying surface controls & actuators airliner with under carriage wheel disk brakes + ABS. 1st jet airliner to cross the Atlantic. 1st jet aircraft to do a world circumnavigation flights series. *Of course De Havilland had prior experience building many all metal construction airframe aircraft including thousands of jet powered fighter aircraft that were primarily of metal construction with pressurised cockpits & jet engines built by De-Havilland & we know the world's first all metal construction airframe airliner was built in England in the 1920s by Handley Page.* *_De Havilland did indeed always work to better than industry standards at the time, no evidence of negligence ever being produced in relation to the DH Comet._* The course of De Havilland & the general UK aerospace industry sector was not affected even slightly by the DH Comet. *_Other interesting World firsts_* _World's first turboprop aircraft._ *Vickers Viscount Turboprop Airliner 1947.* *A 1945 Gloster Meteor Aircraft with Turboprop Gas Turbine Engine.* They might like to answer these questions. *Which airline has just ordered* *60 RR England Trent XWB Engines* *& What aircraft are the engines for?* _Bonus question for 10 points._ Which country has the *World's Highest Combined Per Capita* *Nuclear + Defence + Aerospace Sector Activity?* 👍 Cheers 🙂 . .... . ... . ........... .. ... ... .. Ivcxivcxccccvcccvvvvvvvb

[@petemaly8950]

​@@sandervanderkammen9230 Kharzeestan Krappenz DiktorBummer Jurkzxoffenz etc and co - they should all note good with much awe & extreme wonder. *UPDATE MORE BREAKING NEWS ETC* The Comet was designed with military use in mind, Nimrod work started at De Havilland in 1953. The committee did not find hundreds of fatal flaws or evidence of design defects, structural defects, defective materials or shoddy workmanship. Ripstop provision was included. Claimed incidents did not involve cracks starting from window corners. The engine & engine intake position had advantages, were not flaws or fatal flaws & were not the cause of any incidents involving any Comet or Nimrod aircraft. Nearly all changes before the Comet 4 were just in case or were previously scheduled improvements. Bow-wing & the 707 story (see b-47 wing folding incidents) is the result of global economics & the well protected & very large domestic US airliner market & active support from the UK with for instance proposed Competing airliners from Vickers & DH being blocked by the UK govt & UK airlines, cheap nasty & in large numbers was required. The 707 was of course a much larger aircraft which as a stressed skin metal airframe aircraft would require a thicker skin anyway. They got lucky at the time essentially. Bow-wing is the result of the large & well protected US domestic airliner market The fate of De Havilland was due to Govt policy Aerospace sector rationalisation & global economics, it was nothing to do with the Comet. A comprehensive, thorough & protracted testing program was carried out on the prototype & it's assemblies. Of course the Comet did indeed have Ripstop stop provision. De Havilland (Of England) Comets were not grounded after 1970 due to structural problems. *_It's interesting that some of the aircraft on the list should really have been noticeably safer than the Comet due to being a similar type but of much later design & manufacture but they definately were not safer._* How things were back then - *_Accident losses - % of aircraft built._* DeHavilland Comet 4 UK 14% DeHavilland Comet all mks 17% Vickers VC10 UK 5% *_The DH Comet had better safety than or similar safety to many other commercial passenger aircraft of a similar era_* Douglas DC-1 99% Douglas DC-2 47% Douglas DC-3 30% Douglas DC-4 26% Boeing s300 72% Boeing 307 70% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed L-049/149 Constellation 30% Lockheed Electra Turboprop 29% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Sud Aviation Caravelle 15% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% A comparison of more recent aircraft. Accident losses comparison examples. 1970s - 1980s % of total Aircraft built Similar aircraft type, date / decade, useage, size. Biz Jets BAe-125-800 1.7 % Beechcraft Beechjet 400 2.2 % Cessna 550 Citation II 7.1 % Learjet 35 / 36 12 % Beechcraft 1900 6% Dassault Falcon 10 11.5% Aérospatiale SN.601 22.5% Medium size jets / Turboprops. BAe-146 5.1% Fokker 100 6% McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 9.5% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% Beechcraft, Fokker, McDonnell Douglass, Learjet, Fairchild, Aerospatiale, Canadair, Convair companies defunct. All Comets, including some Comet 1s, had full civilian use certification at some point after 1954, civilian use certification only being withdrawn after commercial flying stopped. Examples were flying until 1997 - one example did a signals research global circumnavigation flight series in 1993 via Australia virtually without a rest travelling 28000 miles, only had an ice warning indicator issue during the flights. *The DH Comet - World Firsts.* 1st gas turbine jet powered airliner. 1st high altitude 8psi pressurised full fuselage length passenger cabin airliner, not a trivial feature as structure strength required for pressurisation considerably exceeded strength required for normal flying stress. Nobody else had done anything similar before the Comet. The b-47 used 2 relatively small, heavily built pressurised modules (the aircraft where 6 had their wings fold up in 2 months while flying & some had their wings fall off while parked). The 1937 Boeing piston engined airliner pressurised passenger cabin was pressurised to 2 psi only - in fact that could easily be done as the normal unpressurized fuselage cabin structure strength for flying stresses only was all that was needed to be adequate so no significant weight increase issues needed addressing. 1st all hydraulically powered flying surface controls & actuators airliner with under carriage wheel disk brakes + ABS. 1st jet airliner to cross the Atlantic. 1st jet aircraft to do a world circumnavigation flights series. *Of course De Havilland had prior experience building many all metal construction airframe aircraft including thousands of jet powered fighter aircraft that were primarily of metal construction with pressurised cockpits & jet engines built by De-Havilland & we know the world's first all metal construction airframe airliner was built in England in the 1920s by Handley Page.* *_De Havilland did indeed always work to better than industry standards at the time, used up to date knowledge for the design & no evidence of negligence or criminal negligence was ever produced in relation to the DH Comet._* The course of De Havilland & the general UK aerospace industry sector was not affected even slightly by the DH Comet. The course of national aerospace sectors obviously being similar & inevitable in many countries. *_Other interesting World firsts_* _World's first turboprop aircraft._ *Vickers Viscount Turboprop Airliner 1947.* *A 1945 Gloster Meteor Aircraft with Turboprop Gas Turbine Engine.* They might like to answer these questions. *Which airline has just ordered* *60 RR England Trent XWB Engines* *& What aircraft are the engines for?* _Bonus question for 10 points._ Which country has the *World's Highest Combined Per Capita* *Nuclear + Defence + Aerospace Sector Activity?* 👍 & 🙂 & of course 😎 indeed. *C H E E R S* & without doubt - _Toodle_ -PIP- *Old* *_C H A P._* This line left not blank intentionally. The next line is blank obviously. . .... . ... .. . . ... .. ... .... .... ............ ..... . Ivcxivcxivxcx cxcxcvccbxc xcxiivxccxvvc ccvvcvvv vcvxc vivcxiccvccvx xccvvvcxccvcv

[@BrucifyMe]

So what's keeping it from taking off? Something wrong with the wing/flight controls that hasn't been worked out yet? A "better safe than sorry" sort of thing?

[@HighFlight]

It wasn't airworthy at the time, nor since and is unlikely ever to be. For that reason it was only ever 'ground run and taxied'.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

This aircraft has reached and exceeded the fatigue life of its airframe, it is no longer safe to fly without being completely rebuilt and the replacement of many structural components.

[@petemaly8950]

​@@sandervanderkammen9230 *​​​THe airframe of the aircraft in question is a particularly robust airframe & would be capable of flight to rated max altitude.* Kharzeestan Krappenz DiktorBummer Jurkzxoffenz etc and co - they should note good with much awestruckness & many extreme wondermentals. *UPDATE MORE BREAKING NEWS ETC* *_It's interesting that some of the aircraft on the list should really have been noticeably safer than the Comet due to being a similar type but of much later design & manufacture but they definately were not safer._* How things were back then - *_Accident losses - % of aircraft built._* DeHavilland Comet 4 UK 14% DeHavilland Comet all mks 17% Vickers VC10 UK 5% *_The DH Comet had better safety than or similar safety to many other commercial passenger aircraft of a similar era_* Douglas DC-1 99% Douglas DC-2 47% Douglas DC-3 30% Douglas DC-4 26% Boeing s300 72% Boeing 307 70% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed Electra Turboprop 29% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Sud Aviation Caravelle 15% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% A comparison of more recent aircraft. Accident losses comparison examples. 1970s - 1980s % of total Aircraft built Similar aircraft type, date / decade, useage, size. Biz Jets BAe-125-800 1.7 % Beechcraft Beechjet 400 2.2 % Cessna 550 Citation II 7.1 % Learjet 35 / 36 12 % Beechcraft 1900 6% Dassault Falcon 10 11.5% Aérospatiale SN.601 22.5% Medium size jets / Turboprops. BAe-146 5.1% Fokker 100 6% McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 9.5% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% Beechcraft, Fokker, McDonnell Douglass, Learjet, Fairchild, Aerospatiale, Canadair, Convair companies defunct. All Comets, including some Comet 1s, had full civilian use certification at some point after 1954, civilian use certification only being withdrawn after commercial flying stopped. Examples were flying until 1997 - one example did a signals research global circumnavigation flight series in 1993 via Australia virtually without a rest travelling 28000 miles, only had an ice warning indicator issue during the flights. *The DH Comet - World Firsts.* 1st gas turbine jet powered airliner. 1st high altitude 8psi pressurised full fuselage length passenger cabin airliner, not a trivial feature as structure strength required for pressurisation considerably exceeded strength required for normal flying stress. Nobody else had done anything similar before the Comet. The b-47 used 2 relatively small, heavily built pressurised modules (the aircraft where 6 had their wings fold up in 2 months while flying & some had their wings fall off while parked). The 1937 Boeing piston engined airliner pressurised passenger cabin was pressurised to 2 psi only - in fact that could easily be done as the normal unpressurized fuselage cabin structure strength for flying stresses only was all that was needed to be adequate so no significant weight increase issues needed addressing. 1st all hydraulically powered flying surface controls & actuators airliner with under carriage wheel disk brakes + ABS. 1st jet airliner to cross the Atlantic. 1st jet aircraft to do a world circumnavigation flights series. *Of course De Havilland had prior experience building many all metal construction airframe aircraft including thousands of jet powered fighter aircraft that were primarily of metal construction with pressurised cockpits & jet engines built by De-Havilland & we know the world's first all metal construction airframe airliner was built in England in the 1920s by Handley Page.* *_De Havilland did indeed always work to better than industry standards at the time, no evidence of negligence ever being produced in relation to the DH Comet._* The course of De Havilland & the general UK aerospace industry sector was not affected even slightly by the DH Comet. *_Other interesting World firsts_* _World's first turboprop aircraft._ *Vickers Viscount Turboprop Airliner 1947.* *A 1945 Gloster Meteor Aircraft with Turboprop Gas Turbine Engine.* They might like to answer these questions. *Which airline has just ordered* *60 RR England Trent XWB Engines* *& What aircraft are the engines for?* _Bonus question for 10 points._ Which country has the *World's Highest Combined Per Capita* *Nuclear + Defence + Aerospace Sector Activity?* 👍 Cheers 🙂 . .... . ... . ... .. ... ............... .. Ivcxivcxivcxiivxxxxxxxxxvivcxi

[@silvianbauer1979]

Mein lieblings Flugzeug.

[@chrisst8922]

OK so the list of aircraft we want back in the air now is: Comet VC10 Victor Just Jane Vulcan (again) Lightning

[@HighFlight]

Sadly, I think the only one of those that we will see back in the air is the oldest - 'Just Jane' Lancaster, but it would be nice to see the others all flying in formation.

[@chrisst8922]

@@HighFlight OK. Anyway could you please add Concorde to our formation 'cos I forgot that first time 'round.

[@HighFlight]

@@chrisst8922 Good idea - Concorde would really be special:)

[@davidweston9115]

Concorde and Lockheed a12 or sr71 both of which are undeniably supreme in their class and never will be exceeded, their likes will never be possible again, as future technology won't allow it. (including future bankers)

[@tawagb1880]

I love this amazing wonderful plane so much I love it so much

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

A very shameful chapter in British history...

[@petemaly8950]

​@@sandervanderkammen9230 ​​​@sandervanderkammen9230 Kharzeestan Krappenz DiktorBummer Jurkzxoffenz etc and co - they should note good with much awestruckness & many extreme wondermentals. *UPDATE MORE BREAKING NEWS ETC* *_It's interesting that some of the aircraft on the list should really have been noticeably safer than the Comet due to being a similar type but of much later design & manufacture but they definately were not safer._* How things were back then - *_Accident losses - % of aircraft built._* DeHavilland Comet 4 UK 14% DeHavilland Comet all mks 17% Vickers VC10 UK 5% *_The DH Comet had better safety than or similar safety to many other commercial passenger aircraft of a similar era_* Douglas DC-1 99% Douglas DC-2 47% Douglas DC-3 30% Douglas DC-4 26% Boeing s300 72% Boeing 307 70% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed Electra Turboprop 29% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Sud Aviation Caravelle 15% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% A comparison of more recent aircraft. Accident losses comparison examples. 1970s - 1980s % of total Aircraft built Similar aircraft type, date / decade, useage, size. Biz Jets BAe-125-800 1.7 % Beechcraft Beechjet 400 2.2 % Cessna 550 Citation II 7.1 % Learjet 35 / 36 12 % Beechcraft 1900 6% Dassault Falcon 10 11.5% Aérospatiale SN.601 22.5% Medium size jets / Turboprops. BAe-146 5.1% Fokker 100 6% McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 9.5% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% Beechcraft, Fokker, McDonnell Douglass, Learjet, Fairchild, Aerospatiale, Canadair, Convair companies defunct. All Comets, including some Comet 1s, had full civilian use certification at some point after 1954, civilian use certification only being withdrawn after commercial flying stopped. Examples were flying until 1997 - one example did a signals research global circumnavigation flight series in 1993 via Australia virtually without a rest travelling 28000 miles, only had an ice warning indicator issue during the flights. *The DH Comet - World Firsts.* 1st gas turbine jet powered airliner. 1st high altitude 8psi pressurised full fuselage length passenger cabin airliner, not a trivial feature as structure strength required for pressurisation considerably exceeded strength required for normal flying stress. Nobody else had done anything similar before the Comet. The b-47 used 2 relatively small, heavily built pressurised modules (the aircraft where 6 had their wings fold up in 2 months while flying & some had their wings fall off while parked). The 1937 Boeing piston engined airliner pressurised passenger cabin was pressurised to 2 psi only - in fact that could easily be done as the normal unpressurized fuselage cabin structure strength for flying stresses only was all that was needed to be adequate so no significant weight increase issues needed addressing. 1st all hydraulically powered flying surface controls & actuators airliner with under carriage wheel disk brakes + ABS. 1st jet airliner to cross the Atlantic. 1st jet aircraft to do a world circumnavigation flights series. *Of course De Havilland had prior experience building many all metal construction airframe aircraft including thousands of jet powered fighter aircraft that were primarily of metal construction with pressurised cockpits & jet engines built by De-Havilland & we know the world's first all metal construction airframe airliner was built in England in the 1920s by Handley Page.* *_De Havilland did indeed always work to better than industry standards at the time, no evidence of negligence ever being produced in relation to the DH Comet._* The course of De Havilland & the general UK aerospace industry sector was not affected even slightly by the DH Comet. *_Other interesting World firsts_* _World's first turboprop aircraft._ *Vickers Viscount Turboprop Airliner 1947.* *A 1945 Gloster Meteor Aircraft with Turboprop Gas Turbine Engine.* They might like to answer these questions. *Which airline has just ordered* *60 RR England Trent XWB Engines* *& What aircraft are the engines for?* _Bonus question for 10 points._ Which country has the *World's Highest Combined Per Capita* *Nuclear + Defence + Aerospace Sector Activity?* 👍 Cheers 🙂 . .... ... . ... . .... . ..... . .... xcxvxcxvxcvxcvcvvxcv

[@petemaly8950]

​@@sandervanderkammen9230 Kharzeestan Krappenz DiktorBummer Jurkzxoffenz etc and co - they should all note good with much awe & extreme wonder. *UPDATE MORE BREAKING NEWS ETC* The Comet was designed with military use in mind, Nimrod work started at De Havilland in 1953. The committee did not find hundreds of fatal flaws or evidence of design defects, structural defects, defective materials or shoddy workmanship. Ripstop provision was included. Claimed incidents did not involve cracks starting from window corners. The engine & engine intake position had advantages, were not flaws or fatal flaws & were not the cause of any incidents involving any Comet or Nimrod aircraft. Nearly all changes before the Comet 4 were just in case or were previously scheduled improvements. Bow-wing & the 707 story (see b-47 wing folding incidents) is the result of global economics & the well protected & very large domestic US airliner market & active support from the UK with for instance proposed Competing airliners from Vickers & DH being blocked by the UK govt & UK airlines, cheap nasty & in large numbers was required. The 707 was of course a much larger aircraft which as a stressed skin metal airframe aircraft would require a thicker skin anyway. They got lucky at the time essentially. Bow-wing is the result of the large & well protected US domestic airliner market The fate of De Havilland was due to Govt policy Aerospace sector rationalisation & global economics, it was nothing to do with the Comet. A comprehensive, thorough & protracted testing program was carried out on the prototype & it's assemblies. Of course the Comet did indeed have Ripstop stop provision. De Havilland (Of England) Comets were not grounded after 1970 due to structural problems. *_It's interesting that some of the aircraft on the list should really have been noticeably safer than the Comet due to being a similar type but of much later design & manufacture but they definately were not safer._* How things were back then - *_Accident losses - % of aircraft built._* DeHavilland Comet 4 UK 14% DeHavilland Comet all mks 17% Vickers VC10 UK 5% *_The DH Comet had better safety than or similar safety to many other commercial passenger aircraft of a similar era_* Douglas DC-1 99% Douglas DC-2 47% Douglas DC-3 30% Douglas DC-4 26% Boeing s300 72% Boeing 307 70% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed L-049/149 Constellation 30% Lockheed Electra Turboprop 29% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Sud Aviation Caravelle 15% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% A comparison of more recent aircraft. Accident losses comparison examples. 1970s - 1980s % of total Aircraft built Similar aircraft type, date / decade, useage, size. Biz Jets BAe-125-800 1.7 % Beechcraft Beechjet 400 2.2 % Cessna 550 Citation II 7.1 % Learjet 35 / 36 12 % Beechcraft 1900 6% Dassault Falcon 10 11.5% Aérospatiale SN.601 22.5% Medium size jets / Turboprops. BAe-146 5.1% Fokker 100 6% McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 9.5% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% Beechcraft, Fokker, McDonnell Douglass, Learjet, Fairchild, Aerospatiale, Canadair, Convair companies defunct. All Comets, including some Comet 1s, had full civilian use certification at some point after 1954, civilian use certification only being withdrawn after commercial flying stopped. Examples were flying until 1997 - one example did a signals research global circumnavigation flight series in 1993 via Australia virtually without a rest travelling 28000 miles, only had an ice warning indicator issue during the flights. *The DH Comet - World Firsts.* 1st gas turbine jet powered airliner. 1st high altitude 8psi pressurised full fuselage length passenger cabin airliner, not a trivial feature as structure strength required for pressurisation considerably exceeded strength required for normal flying stress. Nobody else had done anything similar before the Comet. The b-47 used 2 relatively small, heavily built pressurised modules (the aircraft where 6 had their wings fold up in 2 months while flying & some had their wings fall off while parked). The 1937 Boeing piston engined airliner pressurised passenger cabin was pressurised to 2 psi only - in fact that could easily be done as the normal unpressurized fuselage cabin structure strength for flying stresses only was all that was needed to be adequate so no significant weight increase issues needed addressing. 1st all hydraulically powered flying surface controls & actuators airliner with under carriage wheel disk brakes + ABS. 1st jet airliner to cross the Atlantic. 1st jet aircraft to do a world circumnavigation flights series. *Of course De Havilland had prior experience building many all metal construction airframe aircraft including thousands of jet powered fighter aircraft that were primarily of metal construction with pressurised cockpits & jet engines built by De-Havilland & we know the world's first all metal construction airframe airliner was built in England in the 1920s by Handley Page.* *_De Havilland did indeed always work to better than industry standards at the time, used up to date knowledge for the design & no evidence of negligence or criminal negligence was ever produced in relation to the DH Comet._* The course of De Havilland & the general UK aerospace industry sector was not affected even slightly by the DH Comet. The course of national aerospace sectors obviously being similar & inevitable in many countries. *_Other interesting World firsts_* _World's first turboprop aircraft._ *Vickers Viscount Turboprop Airliner 1947.* *A 1945 Gloster Meteor Aircraft with Turboprop Gas Turbine Engine.* They might like to answer these questions. *Which airline has just ordered* *60 RR England Trent XWB Engines* *& What aircraft are the engines for?* _Bonus question for 10 points._ Which country has the *World's Highest Combined Per Capita* *Nuclear + Defence + Aerospace Sector Activity?* 👍 & 🙂 & of course 😎 indeed. *C H E E R S* & without doubt - _Toodle_ -PIP- *Old* *_C H A P._* This line left not blank intentionally. The next line is blank obviously. . .... . ... .. . . ... .. ... .... .... ............ ..... . Ivcxivcxiv cxcxcvccb xcxiivxccxvvc ccvvcvvv vcv vivcxiccvccvx xccvvvcxcv

[@ChileMiPais]

The front window panes of the cockpit could really use a replacement they look so crazed

[@HighFlight]

They'll need to replace them if they can't see to taxi it about safely. Probably quite costly to have them made, unless they're lucky enough to find some 'new unboxed' in a warehouse somewhere?

[@seanwalsh9814]

@MercyReaper mount the cameras on the wing tanks, ahaha

[@nicholasmaude6906]

Is this aircraft still able to fly?

[@HighFlight]

Unfortunately not. It hasn't flown since 1997 when it arrived at Bruntingthorpe from RAE at Farnborough.

[@stvpls]

will it ever be restored to be airworthy again?

[@HighFlight]

Sadly, I doubt it very much.

[@FinalLugiaGuardian]

@@HighFlight Exactly what would it take to restore this plane to flight ready condition? And how much what it cost to do it? I know if there any small spare parts that are not available, 3D metal printing should be able to fix that. I presume the reason that they don't restore to Flying condition is because it would simply cost too much to be feasible for the organization that up keeps this jet correct?

[@HighFlight]

I think that then general answer to your question is money, time and available resources. I have no idea of the condition of the airframe or her engines and other essential parts, or how much would need to be done and spent to get her back to fully airworthy condition. I only know that she was kept in ground running condition as seen here and more recently. Sadly there is now another threat to her continued existence and that of all of the other aircraft that are at this 'airfield'. The owners have this year contracted with a car storage company - Cox Automotive - for the entire site to be used for storage of brand new and lease expired cars. As a result all aviation activities on the old airfield have been stopped and the owners of all of the airframes, including this one, have been given notice to cease their operations and quit the site by the end of October 2020 (today!). The owners of the Buccaneer Jets have already removed their aircraft by road to ex RAF Kemble and I believe that other aircraft have also been moved. The land owner has formed a satellite company and reserved an area on the airfield which is hoped to become an aircraft museum. This may save larger aircraft such as the Comet, but there are now big question marks over her future and that of the other aircraft?

[@Coltnz1]

You wouldn’t know the full extent of the restoration required until you rip into it.

[@crazyman1650]

I’m genuinely curious as to what might happen if you actually take off in this aircraft in its current state

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

British planes don't age like fine wine... or Boeings.

[@crazyman1650]

@@sandervanderkammen9230 oh

[@steveandtinejeppesen1625]

I'm in the comments section to also find that very answer....

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

@@steveandtinejeppesen1625 The Comet 4 was grounded because serious fatigue cracking was discovered in aircraft that was much worse that predicted by the hours of flight and flight cycles.

[@petemaly8950]

​​@@sandervanderkammen9230 ​​The Comets were not grounded in 1980 due to structural problems. The aircraft in question would be capable of flying. *_Considering flying load stresses alone without very high altitude 8psi differential full length passenger cabin pressurisation the Comets had particularly robust airframes._* Kharzeestan Krappenz DiktorBummer Jurkzxoffenz etc and co - they should note good with much awestruckness & many extreme wondermentals. *UPDATE MORE BREAKING NEWS ETC* *_It's interesting that some of the aircraft on the list should really have been noticeably safer than the Comet due to being a similar type but of much later design & manufacture but they definately were not safer._* How things were back then - *_Accident losses - % of aircraft built._* DeHavilland Comet 4 UK 14% DeHavilland Comet all mks 17% Vickers VC10 UK 5% *_The DH Comet had better safety than or similar safety to many other commercial passenger aircraft of a similar era_* Douglas DC-1 99% Douglas DC-2 47% Douglas DC-3 30% Douglas DC-4 26% Boeing s300 72% Boeing 307 70% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed Electra Turboprop 29% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Sud Aviation Caravelle 15% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% A comparison of more recent aircraft. Accident losses comparison examples. 1970s - 1980s % of total Aircraft built Similar aircraft type, date / decade, useage, size. Biz Jets BAe-125-800 1.7 % Beechcraft Beechjet 400 2.2 % Cessna 550 Citation II 7.1 % Learjet 35 / 36 12 % Beechcraft 1900 6% Dassault Falcon 10 11.5% Aérospatiale SN.601 22.5% Medium size jets / Turboprops. BAe-146 5.1% Fokker 100 6% McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 9.5% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% Beechcraft, Fokker, McDonnell Douglass, Learjet, Fairchild, Aerospatiale, Canadair, Convair companies defunct. All Comets, including some Comet 1s, had full civilian use certification at some point after 1954, civilian use certification only being withdrawn after commercial flying stopped. Examples were flying until 1997 - one example did a signals research global circumnavigation flight series in 1993 via Australia virtually without a rest travelling 28000 miles, only had an ice warning indicator issue during the flights. *The DH Comet - World Firsts.* 1st gas turbine jet powered airliner. 1st high altitude 8psi pressurised full fuselage length passenger cabin airliner, not a trivial feature as structure strength required for pressurisation considerably exceeded strength required for normal flying stress. Nobody else had done anything similar before the Comet. The b-47 used 2 relatively small, heavily built pressurised modules (the aircraft where 6 had their wings fold up in 2 months while flying & some had their wings fall off while parked). The 1937 Boeing piston engined airliner pressurised passenger cabin was pressurised to 2 psi only - in fact that could easily be done as the normal unpressurized fuselage cabin structure strength for flying stresses only was all that was needed to be adequate so no significant weight increase issues needed addressing. 1st all hydraulically powered flying surface controls & actuators airliner with under carriage wheel disk brakes + ABS. 1st jet airliner to cross the Atlantic. 1st jet aircraft to do a world circumnavigation flights series. *Of course De Havilland had prior experience building many all metal construction airframe aircraft including thousands of jet powered fighter aircraft that were primarily of metal construction with pressurised cockpits & jet engines built by De-Havilland & we know the world's first all metal construction airframe airliner was built in England in the 1920s by Handley Page.* *_De Havilland did indeed always work to better than industry standards at the time, no evidence of negligence ever being produced in relation to the DH Comet._* The course of De Havilland & the general UK aerospace industry sector was not affected even slightly by the DH Comet. *_Other interesting World firsts_* _World's first turboprop aircraft._ *Vickers Viscount Turboprop Airliner 1947.* *A 1945 Gloster Meteor Aircraft with Turboprop Gas Turbine Engine.* They might like to answer these questions. *Which airline has just ordered* *60 RR England Trent XWB Engines* *& What aircraft are the engines for?* _Bonus question for 10 points._ Which country has the *World's Highest Combined Per Capita* *Nuclear + Defence + Aerospace Sector Activity?* 👍 Cheers 🙂 . .... . ... ... ... .... ......... .. Ivcxcxcvcxcvccvvvciiiiii

[@davidng2336]

It was something of its time. Too bad it was involved in the multiple tragedies, but it did pave the way for the jetliners of today. I heard they want to eventually get this airworthy.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

Not really, the Comet today is an infamous example of "how NOT to build a jet airliner" It was the hugely successful Boeing 707 series that paved the way for the jet airliners of today not the Comet. That seems very unlikely considering that the Comet 4 was retired due to a safety directive after the remaining aircraft in service were all found to have very serious metal fatigue problems well before their cycles/hours of service limits.

[@davidng2336]

@@sandervanderkammen9230 Definitely. I’m surprised a Comet was saved.

[@petemaly8950]

​@@sandervanderkammen9230 ​​The Comets were not grounded in 1980 due to structural problems. Kharzeestan Krappenz DiktorBummer Jurkzxoffenz etc and co - they should note good with much awestruckness & many extreme wondermentals. *UPDATE MORE BREAKING NEWS ETC* *_It's interesting that some of the aircraft on the list should really have been noticeably safer than the Comet due to being a similar type but of much later design & manufacture but they definately were not safer._* How things were back then - *_Accident losses - % of aircraft built._* DeHavilland Comet 4 UK 14% DeHavilland Comet all mks 17% Vickers VC10 UK 5% *_The DH Comet had better safety than or similar safety to many other commercial passenger aircraft of a similar era_* Douglas DC-1 99% Douglas DC-2 47% Douglas DC-3 30% Douglas DC-4 26% Boeing s300 72% Boeing 307 70% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed Electra Turboprop 29% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Sud Aviation Caravelle 15% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% A comparison of more recent aircraft. Accident losses comparison examples. 1970s - 1980s % of total Aircraft built Similar aircraft type, date / decade, useage, size. Biz Jets BAe-125-800 1.7 % Beechcraft Beechjet 400 2.2 % Cessna 550 Citation II 7.1 % Learjet 35 / 36 12 % Beechcraft 1900 6% Dassault Falcon 10 11.5% Aérospatiale SN.601 22.5% Medium size jets / Turboprops. BAe-146 5.1% Fokker 100 6% McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 9.5% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% Beechcraft, Fokker, McDonnell Douglass, Learjet, Fairchild, Aerospatiale, Canadair, Convair companies defunct. All Comets, including some Comet 1s, had full civilian use certification at some point after 1954, civilian use certification only being withdrawn after commercial flying stopped. Examples were flying until 1997 - one example did a signals research global circumnavigation flight series in 1993 via Australia virtually without a rest travelling 28000 miles, only had an ice warning indicator issue during the flights. *The DH Comet - World Firsts.* 1st gas turbine jet powered airliner. 1st high altitude 8psi pressurised full fuselage length passenger cabin airliner, not a trivial feature as structure strength required for pressurisation considerably exceeded strength required for normal flying stress. Nobody else had done anything similar before the Comet. The b-47 used 2 relatively small, heavily built pressurised modules (the aircraft where 6 had their wings fold up in 2 months while flying & some had their wings fall off while parked). The 1937 Boeing piston engined airliner pressurised passenger cabin was pressurised to 2 psi only - in fact that could easily be done as the normal unpressurized fuselage cabin structure strength for flying stresses only was all that was needed to be adequate so no significant weight increase issues needed addressing. 1st all hydraulically powered flying surface controls & actuators airliner with under carriage wheel disk brakes + ABS. 1st jet airliner to cross the Atlantic. 1st jet aircraft to do a world circumnavigation flights series. *Of course De Havilland had prior experience building many all metal construction airframe aircraft including thousands of jet powered fighter aircraft that were primarily of metal construction with pressurised cockpits & jet engines built by De-Havilland & we know the world's first all metal construction airframe airliner was built in England in the 1920s by Handley Page.* *_De Havilland did indeed always work to better than industry standards at the time, no evidence of negligence ever being produced in relation to the DH Comet._* The course of De Havilland & the general UK aerospace industry sector was not affected even slightly by the DH Comet. *_Other interesting World firsts_* _World's first turboprop aircraft._ *Vickers Viscount Turboprop Airliner 1947.* *A 1945 Gloster Meteor Aircraft with Turboprop Gas Turbine Engine.* They might like to answer these questions. *Which airline has just ordered* *60 RR England Trent XWB Engines* *& What aircraft are the engines for?* _Bonus question for 10 points._ Which country has the *World's Highest Combined Per Capita* *Nuclear + Defence + Aerospace Sector Activity?* 👍 Cheers 🙂 . .... . ... . ... .. ... . . ... ... .. Ixcxvxxxxxxxxxccccciiiiiivv

[@danielzerpa1372]

Pregunto: ¿El Canopus voló para Aerolineas Argentinas?

[@HighFlight]

Aerlineas Argentinas sí operó el Comet, pero no puedo encontrar ninguna referencia a uno que llamaron 'Canopus'. He encontrado una referencia a un Boeing 707 que operaban y que se llamaba 'Canopus'. Quizás uno de sus Cometas también tenía anteriormente el mismo nombre, pero no puedo encontrar ninguna referencia que sugiera que alguno de sus Cometas IV haya sido nombrado individualmente. Las fotos del Boeing 707 están aquí: loudandclearisnotenought.blogspot.com/2010/04/lv-jgr-boeing-707-387c-cn-19962755.html

[@alejandrovidal6441]

@@HighFlight The Comet was Aerolíneas Argentinas` first jet plane and at the same time was the first commercial jet in the region. Of the seven Comets the company had, three ended its days flying for Dan Air London...

[@noeciocustodio7771]

Muito bom

[@zeusthealaskanmalamute8407]

Isn’t that thing supposed to fly anymore?

[@HighFlight]

No, it won't fly ever again, at least not without an awful lot of time and money being spent on it, which is unlikely?

[@zeusthealaskanmalamute8407]

@@HighFlight oh thx for telling me

[@joshteshek1155]

Does this comet still fly?

[@joshteshek1155]

As of 2021

[@HighFlight]

Sadly, it doesn't and is never likely to - unless somebody with lots of money is willing to pay for a full restoration?

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

This aircraft will never fly again, it has been deemed unsafe to fly due to structural fatigue damage. This plane would require complete disassembly, inspection and its airframe replaced with new structural components.. a project so costly even the British government could not afford( vis-a-vie H.S. Nimrod)

[@HighFlight]

@@sandervanderkammen9230 Yes, it would be cheaper to build a complete and authentic replica from scratch.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

@@HighFlight Yes, this true.

[@86breakfastclub]

She needs to be in the air

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

Can't fly anymore, structurally unsafe..

[@86breakfastclub]

@@sandervanderkammen9230 drat. Anyway they can make her airworthy again ???

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

@@86breakfastclub These planes were grounded in 1980 because of serious structural damage caused by fatigue and the fact that there was no longer any spare parts to repair them. The same fate that met the Hawker Siddeley Nimrods.

[@petemaly8950]

​@@sandervanderkammen9230 ​No. They were not grounded in 1980 due to structural problems. Kharzeestan Krappenz DiktorBummer Jurkzxoffenz etc and co - they should note good with much awestruckness & many extreme wondermentals. *UPDATE MORE BREAKING NEWS ETC* *_It's interesting that some of the aircraft on the list should really have been noticeably safer than the Comet due to being a similar type but of much later design & manufacture but they definately were not safer._* How things were back then - *_Accident losses - % of aircraft built._* DeHavilland Comet 4 UK 14% DeHavilland Comet all mks 17% Vickers VC10 UK 5% *_The DH Comet had better safety than or similar safety to many other commercial passenger aircraft of a similar era_* Douglas DC-1 99% Douglas DC-2 47% Douglas DC-3 30% Douglas DC-4 26% Boeing s300 72% Boeing 307 70% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed Electra Turboprop 29% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Sud Aviation Caravelle 15% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% A comparison of more recent aircraft. Accident losses comparison examples. 1970s - 1980s % of total Aircraft built Similar aircraft type, date / decade, useage, size. Biz Jets BAe-125-800 1.7 % Beechcraft Beechjet 400 2.2 % Cessna 550 Citation II 7.1 % Learjet 35 / 36 12 % Beechcraft 1900 6% Dassault Falcon 10 11.5% Aérospatiale SN.601 22.5% Medium size jets / Turboprops. BAe-146 5.1% Fokker 100 6% McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 9.5% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% Beechcraft, Fokker, McDonnell Douglass, Learjet, Fairchild, Aerospatiale, Canadair, Convair companies defunct. All Comets, including some Comet 1s, had full civilian use certification at some point after 1954, civilian use certification only being withdrawn after commercial flying stopped. Examples were flying until 1997 - one example did a signals research global circumnavigation flight series in 1993 via Australia virtually without a rest travelling 28000 miles, only had an ice warning indicator issue during the flights. *The DH Comet - World Firsts.* 1st gas turbine jet powered airliner. 1st high altitude 8psi pressurised full fuselage length passenger cabin airliner, not a trivial feature as structure strength required for pressurisation considerably exceeded strength required for normal flying stress. Nobody else had done anything similar before the Comet. The b-47 used 2 relatively small, heavily built pressurised modules (the aircraft where 6 had their wings fold up in 2 months while flying & some had their wings fall off while parked). The 1937 Boeing piston engined airliner pressurised passenger cabin was pressurised to 2 psi only - in fact that could easily be done as the normal unpressurized fuselage cabin structure strength for flying stresses only was all that was needed to be adequate so no significant weight increase issues needed addressing. 1st all hydraulically powered flying surface controls & actuators airliner with under carriage wheel disk brakes + ABS. 1st jet airliner to cross the Atlantic. 1st jet aircraft to do a world circumnavigation flights series. *Of course De Havilland had prior experience building many all metal construction airframe aircraft including thousands of jet powered fighter aircraft that were primarily of metal construction with pressurised cockpits & jet engines built by De-Havilland & we know the world's first all metal construction airframe airliner was built in England in the 1920s by Handley Page.* *_De Havilland did indeed always work to better than industry standards at the time, no evidence of negligence ever being produced in relation to the DH Comet._* The course of De Havilland & the general UK aerospace industry sector was not affected even slightly by the DH Comet. *_Other interesting World firsts_* _World's first turboprop aircraft._ *Vickers Viscount Turboprop Airliner 1947.* *A 1945 Gloster Meteor Aircraft with Turboprop Gas Turbine Engine.* They might like to answer these questions. *Which airline has just ordered* *60 RR England Trent XWB Engines* *& What aircraft are the engines for?* _Bonus question for 10 points._ Which country has the *World's Highest Combined Per Capita* *Nuclear + Defence + Aerospace Sector Activity?* 👍 Cheers 🙂 . ... . .... . .. .. Ivcxivcxivvvvvxvvvvii

[@fortisfortunaadiuvat9262]

Want to see her fly

[@tms_gamerz2332]

They could’ve at least took off and flew only around the runway and land again like I don’t think it will disintegrate at slow flyovers

[@HighFlight]

Unfortunately it isn't airworthy, but it would have been nice if they could have done that!

[@FinalLugiaGuardian]

@@HighFlight what exactly is keeping it from being airworthy? And what would it take to make the plane airworthy again? I've seen a Boeing B-29 that was built in 1945 and left in very poor condition be restored to flight-ready condition. It is possible to do it for a piston powered plane built in the 1940s, it should be possible, but probably very very expensive admittedly, to do it for a plane built in the 1950s correct?

[@HighFlight]

@@FinalLugiaGuardian I think that then general answer to your question is money, time and available resources. I have no idea of the condition of the airframe or her engines and other essential parts, or how much would need to be done and spent to get her back to fully airworthy condition. I only know that she was kept in ground running condition as seen here and more recently. Sadly there is now another threat to her continued existence and that of all of the other aircraft that are at this 'airfield'. The owners have this year contracted with a car storage company - Cox Automotive - for the entire site to be used for storage of brand new and lease expired cars. As a result all aviation activities on the old airfield have been stopped and the owners of all of the airframes, including this one, have been given notice to cease their operations and quit the site by the end of October 2020 (today!). The owners of the Buccaneer Jets have already removed their aircraft by road to ex RAF Kemble and I believe that other aircraft have also been moved. The land owner has formed a satellite company and reserved an area on the airfield which is hoped to become an aircraft museum. This may save larger aircraft such as the Comet, but there are now big question marks over her future and that of the other aircraft?

[@patchescessna7348]

@@FinalLugiaGuardian I wonder the same, I understand todays B-29s use lower power settings, No superchargers and fly around 7-8,00’ so no need for cabin pressurization either. I’m curious how many cycles are on this airframe and its design life, As always with aluminum skin the corrosion control is a big undertaking. Comets a nice aircraft but the VC-10 and Concorde are up there with some if the most beautiful of aircraft

[@432b86ed]

Couldn't they do something a little more aesthetically pleasing on the vertical stabilizer? It looks like a zit.

[@HighFlight]

It serves a purpose - it's a special dielectric paint used on the 'dielectric vhf aerial cover' which the top of the vertical stabiliser contains. Also used on the horizontal tailplane tips which house ILS and dielectric aerials.

[@blissy1]

Why no fly, probably just as well with the dog on the taxi way

[@sbchelldiver]

Sounds like Thunderbird 2!!!

[@tonydanev1847]

Is it not able to fly?

[@HighFlight]

Unfortunately not. To fly it would need a complete airworthy restoration which I think would be beyond the financial means of the owners? It would be nice if it could though.

[@tonydanev1847]

@@HighFlight Legendary bird

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

@@tonydanev1847 Legendary failure.. the Comet Disaster remains the worst engineering in the history of commercial aviation. A truly shameful chapter in British history that destroyed a once great aircraft company and crippled the UK aircraft industry.

[@ChaklitTea]

@@sandervanderkammen9230 coming from a dutch, do you know how many Fokker has crashed?

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

@@ChaklitTea Even the RAF doesn't buy British jets anymore...

[@zicnicevahtar3400]

Coool😃😃😃👍🏻

[@Knight6831]

Just imagine how much more power she would have had if 4 15000ibf Rolls-Royce RB.106Thames had been installed

[@timmanboy1]

That would be upgrade. I don't think the original engines produced more than 5-10k Ibs of thrust each.

[@MrAlwaysBlue]

Not sure about the dog

[@petemaly8950]

6:26 & 7:35 World's 1st ground crew & spectator herding dog in action.

[@ginaplympton7889]

Was this plane ultimately determined to be of unsafe design? I was never clear on that.

[@oh_ze]

I did reaf about square Windows being cause the cause of uselage cracks

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

The Comet 1 fleet was permanently grounded and never flew again. The Comet 4 was completely redesigned from nose to tail but still suffered extremely high loss rates.

[@petemaly8950]

​@@sandervanderkammen9230 ​ Kharzeestan Krappenz DiktorBummer Jurkzxoffenz etc and co - they should all note good with much awe & extreme wonder. *UPDATE MORE BREAKING NEWS ETC* The Comet was designed with military use in mind, Nimrod work started at De Havilland in 1953. The committee did not find hundreds of fatal flaws or evidence of design defects, structural defects, defective materials or shoddy workmanship. Ripstop provision was included. Claimed incidents did not involve cracks starting from window corners. The engine & engine intake position had advantages, were not flaws or fatal flaws & were not the cause of any incidents involving any Comet or Nimrod aircraft. Nearly all changes before the Comet 4 were just in case or were previously scheduled improvements. Bow-wing & the 707 story (see b-47 wing folding incidents) is the result of global economics & the well protected & very large domestic US airliner market & active support from the UK with for instance proposed Competing airliners from Vickers & DH being blocked by the UK govt & UK airlines, cheap nasty & in large numbers was required. The 707 was of course a much larger aircraft which as a stressed skin metal airframe aircraft would require a thicker skin anyway. They got lucky at the time essentially. Bow-wing is the result of the large & well protected US domestic airliner market The fate of De Havilland was due to Govt policy Aerospace sector rationalisation & global economics, it was nothing to do with the Comet. A comprehensive, thorough & protracted testing program was carried out on the prototype & it's assemblies. Of course the Comet did indeed have Ripstop stop provision. De Havilland (Of England) Comets were not grounded after 1970 due to structural problems. *_It's interesting that some of the aircraft on the list should really have been noticeably safer than the Comet due to being a similar type but of much later design & manufacture but they definately were not safer._* How things were back then - *_Accident losses - % of aircraft built._* DeHavilland Comet 4 UK 14% DeHavilland Comet all mks 17% Vickers VC10 UK 5% *_The DH Comet had better safety than or similar safety to many other commercial passenger aircraft of a similar era_* Douglas DC-1 99% Douglas DC-2 47% Douglas DC-3 30% Douglas DC-4 26% Boeing s300 72% Boeing 307 70% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed L-049/149 Constellation 30% Lockheed Electra Turboprop 29% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Sud Aviation Caravelle 15% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% A comparison of more recent aircraft. Accident losses comparison examples. 1970s - 1980s % of total Aircraft built Similar aircraft type, date / decade, useage, size. Biz Jets BAe-125-800 1.7 % Beechcraft Beechjet 400 2.2 % Cessna 550 Citation II 7.1 % Learjet 35 / 36 12 % Beechcraft 1900 6% Dassault Falcon 10 11.5% Aérospatiale SN.601 22.5% Medium size jets / Turboprops. BAe-146 5.1% Fokker 100 6% McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 9.5% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% Beechcraft, Fokker, McDonnell Douglass, Learjet, Fairchild, Aerospatiale, Canadair, Convair companies defunct. All Comets, including some Comet 1s, had full civilian use certification at some point after 1954, civilian use certification only being withdrawn after commercial flying stopped. Examples were flying until 1997 - one example did a signals research global circumnavigation flight series in 1993 via Australia virtually without a rest travelling 28000 miles, only had an ice warning indicator issue during the flights. *The DH Comet - World Firsts.* 1st gas turbine jet powered airliner. 1st high altitude 8psi pressurised full fuselage length passenger cabin airliner, not a trivial feature as structure strength required for pressurisation considerably exceeded strength required for normal flying stress. Nobody else had done anything similar before the Comet. The b-47 used 2 relatively small, heavily built pressurised modules (the aircraft where 6 had their wings fold up in 2 months while flying & some had their wings fall off while parked). The 1937 Boeing piston engined airliner pressurised passenger cabin was pressurised to 2 psi only - in fact that could easily be done as the normal unpressurized fuselage cabin structure strength for flying stresses only was all that was needed to be adequate so no significant weight increase issues needed addressing. 1st all hydraulically powered flying surface controls & actuators airliner with under carriage wheel disk brakes + ABS. 1st jet airliner to cross the Atlantic. 1st jet aircraft to do a world circumnavigation flights series. *Of course De Havilland had prior experience building many all metal construction airframe aircraft including thousands of jet powered fighter aircraft that were primarily of metal construction with pressurised cockpits & jet engines built by De-Havilland & we know the world's first all metal construction airframe airliner was built in England in the 1920s by Handley Page.* *_De Havilland did indeed always work to better than industry standards at the time, used up to date knowledge for the design & no evidence of negligence or criminal negligence was ever produced in relation to the DH Comet._* The course of De Havilland & the general UK aerospace industry sector was not affected even slightly by the DH Comet. The course of national aerospace sectors obviously being similar & inevitable in many countries. *_Other interesting World firsts_* _World's first turboprop aircraft._ *Vickers Viscount Turboprop Airliner 1947.* *A 1945 Gloster Meteor Aircraft with Turboprop Gas Turbine Engine.* They might like to answer these questions. *Which airline has just ordered* *60 RR England Trent XWB Engines* *& What aircraft are the engines for?* _Bonus question for 10 points._ Which country has the *World's Highest Combined Per Capita* *Nuclear + Defence + Aerospace Sector Activity?* 👍 & 🙂 & of course 😎 indeed. *C H E E R S* & without doubt - _Toodle_ -PIP- *Old* *_C H A P._* This line left not blank intentionally. The next line is blank obviously. . .... . ... .. . . ... .. ... .... .... ............ ..... . Ivcxivcxiv cxcxcvccbxxxx xcxiivxccxvvcxcx ccvvcvvv vcvxcx vivcxiccvccvxvc xccvvvcxcvxcx

[@hermenegildoribentrop9406]

A death trap for so many people, RIP.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

The worst engineering disaster in commercial aviation history... 26 Comets crashed or destroyed in accidents.. 1 out of every 4 built.

[@user-yk4gd1fl4z]

@@sandervanderkammen9230 Dude, obsessed much? Go outside and touch some grass. Peace and love.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

@@user-yk4gd1fl4z Just the facts here lad, it's time to stop denying the truth.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

@@user-yk4gd1fl4z The Comet Disaster is the worst engineering failure in commercial jet aviation history and it has the highest loss rate and fatalities statistics of any jet airliner

[@petemaly8950]

​@@sandervanderkammen9230 Kharzeestan Krappenz DiktorBummer Jurkzxoffenz etc and co - they should note good with much awestruckness & many extreme wondermentals. *UPDATE MORE BREAKING NEWS ETC* *_It's interesting that some of the aircraft on the list should really have been noticeably safer than the Comet due to being a similar type but of much later design & manufacture but they definately were not safer._* How things were back then - *_Accident losses - % of aircraft built._* DeHavilland Comet 4 UK 14% DeHavilland Comet all mks 17% Vickers VC10 UK 5% *_The DH Comet had better safety than or similar safety to many other commercial passenger aircraft of a similar era_* Douglas DC-1 99% Douglas DC-2 47% Douglas DC-3 30% Douglas DC-4 26% Boeing s300 72% Boeing 307 70% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed Electra Turboprop 29% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Sud Aviation Caravelle 15% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% A comparison of more recent aircraft. Accident losses comparison examples. 1970s - 1980s % of total Aircraft built Similar aircraft type, date / decade, useage, size. Biz Jets BAe-125-800 1.7 % Beechcraft Beechjet 400 2.2 % Cessna 550 Citation II 7.1 % Learjet 35 / 36 12 % Beechcraft 1900 6% Dassault Falcon 10 11.5% Aérospatiale SN.601 22.5% Medium size jets / Turboprops. BAe-146 5.1% Fokker 100 6% McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 9.5% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% Beechcraft, Fokker, McDonnell Douglass, Learjet, Fairchild, Aerospatiale, Canadair, Convair companies defunct. All Comets, including some Comet 1s, had full civilian use certification at some point after 1954, civilian use certification only being withdrawn after commercial flying stopped. Examples were flying until 1997 - one example did a signals research global circumnavigation flight series in 1993 via Australia virtually without a rest travelling 28000 miles, only had an ice warning indicator issue during the flights. *The DH Comet - World Firsts.* 1st gas turbine jet powered airliner. 1st high altitude 8psi pressurised full fuselage length passenger cabin airliner, not a trivial feature as structure strength required for pressurisation considerably exceeded strength required for normal flying stress. Nobody else had done anything similar before the Comet. The b-47 used 2 relatively small, heavily built pressurised modules (the aircraft where 6 had their wings fold up in 2 months while flying & some had their wings fall off while parked). The 1937 Boeing piston engined airliner pressurised passenger cabin was pressurised to 2 psi only - in fact that could easily be done as the normal unpressurized fuselage cabin structure strength for flying stresses only was all that was needed to be adequate so no significant weight increase issues needed addressing. 1st all hydraulically powered flying surface controls & actuators airliner with under carriage wheel disk brakes + ABS. 1st jet airliner to cross the Atlantic. 1st jet aircraft to do a world circumnavigation flights series. *Of course De Havilland had prior experience building many all metal construction airframe aircraft including thousands of jet powered fighter aircraft that were primarily of metal construction with pressurised cockpits & jet engines built by De-Havilland & we know the world's first all metal construction airframe airliner was built in England in the 1920s by Handley Page.* *_De Havilland did indeed always work to better than industry standards at the time, no evidence of negligence ever being produced in relation to the DH Comet._* The course of De Havilland & the general UK aerospace industry sector was not affected even slightly by the DH Comet. *_Other interesting World firsts_* _World's first turboprop aircraft._ *Vickers Viscount Turboprop Airliner 1947.* *A 1945 Gloster Meteor Aircraft with Turboprop Gas Turbine Engine.* They might like to answer these questions. *Which airline has just ordered* *60 RR England Trent XWB Engines* *& What aircraft are the engines for?* _Bonus question for 10 points._ Which country has the *World's Highest Combined Per Capita* *Nuclear + Defence + Aerospace Sector Activity?* 👍 Cheers 🙂 . .... . ... . ... .. ... ... ... .. . ... . ... . xxxxxccccvvvviiiiixxxxxcxcvvxvv

[@dinablok]

N*

[@227beau]

Great video. I posted another video of same subject so I know the sprint we had to do from the runway to the taxyway to get her as she was taxying in. When they moved the cones I am in the group as the right wing went over our heads. Exciting as it was, they should have moved people away before the aircraft taxyied in. A bit too much proximity for elf n' safety me thinks ! She didn't open those throttles to the wall on the take-off run did she ?

[@HighFlight]

Thankyou. It was a sprint to get there and even more so getting back to the runway when I saw that the Canberra was running up! You're right about safety, but the guy with the dog did a good job getting people out of the way all by himself. The 'fast taxi' was a bit throttled back, but I think they were mindful of the wind speed and direction into which they were running?They wouldn't want another accidental take off as happened with the Victor in 2009!

[@AA-ss9no]

That dog should have been on a lead. Great video though.

[@mvg2x34]

Seems like there would be a lot of remedial work needed to strengthen the airframe? Wasn’t it metal fatigue that doomed the Comet?

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

Yes, this aircraft has reached the end of its fatuge life and would require a total structural rebuild.

[@petemaly8950]

​@@sandervanderkammen9230 *_The airframe of the aircraft in question happens to be a particularly robust airframe & would be capable of flight to max rated altitude._* Kharzeestan Krappenz DiktorBummer Jurkzxoffenz etc and co - they should note good with much awestruckness & many extreme wondermentals. *UPDATE MORE BREAKING NEWS ETC* *_It's interesting that some of the aircraft on the list should really have been noticeably safer than the Comet due to being a similar type but of much later design & manufacture but they definately were not safer._* How things were back then - *_Accident losses - % of aircraft built._* DeHavilland Comet 4 UK 14% DeHavilland Comet all mks 17% Vickers VC10 UK 5% *_The DH Comet had better safety than or similar safety to many other commercial passenger aircraft of a similar era_* Douglas DC-1 99% Douglas DC-2 47% Douglas DC-3 30% Douglas DC-4 26% Boeing s300 72% Boeing 307 70% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed Electra Turboprop 29% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Sud Aviation Caravelle 15% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% A comparison of more recent aircraft. Accident losses comparison examples. 1970s - 1980s % of total Aircraft built Similar aircraft type, date / decade, useage, size. Biz Jets BAe-125-800 1.7 % Beechcraft Beechjet 400 2.2 % Cessna 550 Citation II 7.1 % Learjet 35 / 36 12 % Beechcraft 1900 6% Dassault Falcon 10 11.5% Aérospatiale SN.601 22.5% Medium size jets / Turboprops. BAe-146 5.1% Fokker 100 6% McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 9.5% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% Beechcraft, Fokker, McDonnell Douglass, Learjet, Fairchild, Aerospatiale, Canadair, Convair companies defunct. All Comets, including some Comet 1s, had full civilian use certification at some point after 1954, civilian use certification only being withdrawn after commercial flying stopped. Examples were flying until 1997 - one example did a signals research global circumnavigation flight series in 1993 via Australia virtually without a rest travelling 28000 miles, only had an ice warning indicator issue during the flights. *The DH Comet - World Firsts.* 1st gas turbine jet powered airliner. 1st high altitude 8psi pressurised full fuselage length passenger cabin airliner, not a trivial feature as structure strength required for pressurisation considerably exceeded strength required for normal flying stress. Nobody else had done anything similar before the Comet. The b-47 used 2 relatively small, heavily built pressurised modules (the aircraft where 6 had their wings fold up in 2 months while flying & some had their wings fall off while parked). The 1937 Boeing piston engined airliner pressurised passenger cabin was pressurised to 2 psi only - in fact that could easily be done as the normal unpressurized fuselage cabin structure strength for flying stresses only was all that was needed to be adequate so no significant weight increase issues needed addressing. 1st all hydraulically powered flying surface controls & actuators airliner with under carriage wheel disk brakes + ABS. 1st jet airliner to cross the Atlantic. 1st jet aircraft to do a world circumnavigation flights series. *Of course De Havilland had prior experience building many all metal construction airframe aircraft including thousands of jet powered fighter aircraft that were primarily of metal construction with pressurised cockpits & jet engines built by De-Havilland & we know the world's first all metal construction airframe airliner was built in England in the 1920s by Handley Page.* *_De Havilland did indeed always work to better than industry standards at the time, no evidence of negligence ever being produced in relation to the DH Comet._* The course of De Havilland & the general UK aerospace industry sector was not affected even slightly by the DH Comet. *_Other interesting World firsts_* _World's first turboprop aircraft._ *Vickers Viscount Turboprop Airliner 1947.* *A 1945 Gloster Meteor Aircraft with Turboprop Gas Turbine Engine.* They might like to answer these questions. *Which airline has just ordered* *60 RR England Trent XWB Engines* *& What aircraft are the engines for?* _Bonus question for 10 points._ Which country has the *World's Highest Combined Per Capita* *Nuclear + Defence + Aerospace Sector Activity?* 👍 Cheers 🙂 . .... . ... . ... .. ... ... ............. Ivcxivcxixvcxcvcxcvcccvxcv

[@weltfremd]

nice replacement for boing 737 max

[@HighFlight]

Far more reliable!

[@HighFlight]

@MercyReaper Too true!

[@patrickflohe7427]

@@HighFlight Ridiculous comment....

[@HighFlight]

@@patrickflohe7427 Perhaps you could show that yours isn't, by explaining why and also looking up the definition of irony?

[@blackmaiden3893]

@@patrickflohe7427 It appears we have found another shmuck who can’t comprehend a joke...

[@90slivin52]

It's so small, compared to those beasts they fly today

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

The Comet was technically obsolete on arrival... it remains an example of how not to build jet airliners.

[@lewissteele9553]

Sander Van der Kammen And here you are again, trolling the Comet. Are you for real?! “Technically obsolete on arrival” - so despite it being the only jet airliner in the world on arrival, with countless pioneering features that have carried on today, it was technically obsolete? You seriously need a history lesson.

[@seanwalsh9814]

@@lewissteele9553 Sander is well known in these comment sections on videos about the comet to despise the thing, it's best to ignore them. :)

[@davidweston9115]

@@sandervanderkammen9230 Well then it's good they gave us that example of how not to build them, otherwise we wouldn't have known. It's lucky for all of us they built it first, because then the copycats got do get it right on their first try, and the thousands of 707 and dc-8 didn't all have to explode in flight. I believe penicillin started out as an accidentally left over moldy lunch sandwich that the scientist forgot to eat, and he ate it days later. Sure you wouldn't do that again but you use the mold in pill form to save the world.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

@@lewissteele9553 Despite its being the first pressurized airliner with fatal flaws so aggregious its airworthiness certification was permanently REVOKED... What pioneering features are you referring to?

[@use-oc4mj6n]

The Boeing 787 of the 50's. Innovative but ultimately flawed 🇬🇧

[@juliettebravosprteam4072]

One of the best aircraft designs up to date, looks majestic but the chrome livery has been removed which is a-shame.

[@SuperNeowiz]

wtf are you talking about? This plane was retired due to insane amounts of flight accidents due to a flaw in a design related to metal fatigue.

[@stephenp448]

@Edgar Kiechle Only partly true. The Mk. 1 Comets were grounded (not retired) after a series of accidents, which were traced to design flaws and metal fatigue. One of the main issues was square (rather than rounded) windows. The use of punch riveting rather than drilling was also cited. All that said, the Comet was extensively redesigned, and the Mk II through IV models were fairly successful. Unfortunately for De Havilland, by the time the Comet made it back into service, it was overshadowed by both the 707 and DC-8, both of which were significantly larger planes, and neither of which had the baggage of previous crashes.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

The Comet Disaster was the worst engineering failure in aviation history. The Comet was such a colossal failure it brought down the the mighty DeHavilland company.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

@@stephenp448 One of every four Comets crashed or were lost to accidents.

[@davidweston9115]

@@sandervanderkammen9230 You sir, ... are a Bum. (insert Ralph Kramden accent and delivery)

[@jovanholland36]

How does this plane still fly and exist

[@HighFlight]

Unfortunately it hasn't flown for many years, nor is likely too. The 'Taxi Run' and open days no longer happen at Bruntingthorpe, because the airfield has now been leased to Cox Automotive, who are not interested in the preservation or history of aeroplanes or of the airfield. As a result many aircraft that were on the site have been either moved off site, scrapped or moved to very small hard stand areas of the old airfield that the land owner has retained control of. Although the DH106 still survives, it is one of these 'landlocked' airframes. It will hopefully continue to be maintained by its owners and volunteers.

[@sbchelldiver]

An airfield dog...he's not scared of jets...and more disciplined than people! How British can that be!!!!

[@BeHappy-lp8tg]

Small engines for big body

[@HighFlight]

4 Rolls Royce Avon 522s similar to those used singly in the Hawker Hunter, so the power and thrust of 4 Hawker Hunter jets combined!

[@petemaly8950]

Compared to the most advanced radial piston aircraft engines at the time the Avon's had 3 times more horse power, were the same weight & had half the diameter.

[@alexfinns6162]

I hope it will fly again!

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

That is about as likely as snow in hell..

[@alexfinns6162]

@@sandervanderkammen9230 you never know... maybe the devil will calm down someday 🤷‍♂

[@petemaly8950]

​@@sandervanderkammen9230 Kharzeestan Krappenz DiktorBummer Jurkzxoffenz etc and co - they should note good with much awestruckness & many extreme wondermentals. *UPDATE MORE BREAKING NEWS ETC* *_It's interesting that some of the aircraft on the list should really have been noticeably safer than the Comet due to being a similar type but of much later design & manufacture but they definately were not safer._* How things were back then - *_Accident losses - % of aircraft built._* DeHavilland Comet 4 UK 14% DeHavilland Comet all mks 17% Vickers VC10 UK 5% *_The DH Comet had better safety than or similar safety to many other commercial passenger aircraft of a similar era_* Douglas DC-1 99% Douglas DC-2 47% Douglas DC-3 30% Douglas DC-4 26% Boeing s300 72% Boeing 307 70% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed Electra Turboprop 29% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Sud Aviation Caravelle 15% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% A comparison of more recent aircraft. Accident losses comparison examples. 1970s - 1980s % of total Aircraft built Similar aircraft type, date / decade, useage, size. Biz Jets BAe-125-800 1.7 % Beechcraft Beechjet 400 2.2 % Cessna 550 Citation II 7.1 % Learjet 35 / 36 12 % Beechcraft 1900 6% Dassault Falcon 10 11.5% Aérospatiale SN.601 22.5% Medium size jets / Turboprops. BAe-146 5.1% Fokker 100 6% McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 9.5% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% Beechcraft, Fokker, McDonnell Douglass, Learjet, Fairchild, Aerospatiale, Canadair, Convair companies defunct. All Comets, including some Comet 1s, had full civilian use certification at some point after 1954, civilian use certification only being withdrawn after commercial flying stopped. Examples were flying until 1997 - one example did a signals research global circumnavigation flight series in 1993 via Australia virtually without a rest travelling 28000 miles, only had an ice warning indicator issue during the flights. *The DH Comet - World Firsts.* 1st gas turbine jet powered airliner. 1st high altitude 8psi pressurised full fuselage length passenger cabin airliner, not a trivial feature as structure strength required for pressurisation considerably exceeded strength required for normal flying stress. Nobody else had done anything similar before the Comet. The b-47 used 2 relatively small, heavily built pressurised modules (the aircraft where 6 had their wings fold up in 2 months while flying & some had their wings fall off while parked). The 1937 Boeing piston engined airliner pressurised passenger cabin was pressurised to 2 psi only - in fact that could easily be done as the normal unpressurized fuselage cabin structure strength for flying stresses only was all that was needed to be adequate so no significant weight increase issues needed addressing. 1st all hydraulically powered flying surface controls & actuators airliner with under carriage wheel disk brakes + ABS. 1st jet airliner to cross the Atlantic. 1st jet aircraft to do a world circumnavigation flights series. *Of course De Havilland had prior experience building many all metal construction airframe aircraft including thousands of jet powered fighter aircraft that were primarily of metal construction with pressurised cockpits & jet engines built by De-Havilland & we know the world's first all metal construction airframe airliner was built in England in the 1920s by Handley Page.* *_De Havilland did indeed always work to better than industry standards at the time, no evidence of negligence ever being produced in relation to the DH Comet._* The course of De Havilland & the general UK aerospace industry sector was not affected even slightly by the DH Comet. *_Other interesting World firsts_* _World's first turboprop aircraft._ *Vickers Viscount Turboprop Airliner 1947.* *A 1945 Gloster Meteor Aircraft with Turboprop Gas Turbine Engine.* They might like to answer these questions. *Which airline has just ordered* *60 RR England Trent XWB Engines* *& What aircraft are the engines for?* _Bonus question for 10 points._ Which country has the *World's Highest Combined Per Capita* *Nuclear + Defence + Aerospace Sector Activity?* 👍 Cheers 🙂 . .... . ... ... .. Ivxcxvxvcbxcxbccbiii

[@DeadlyKiss000]

A plane from 1949!!!!!

[@HighFlight]

The first DH106 flew in 1949. This one first flew in 1963.

[@DeadlyKiss000]

@@HighFlight Actually you are correct. I shall edit my original comment. Well done to you.

[@HighFlight]

@@DeadlyKiss000 It can be confusing, especially as De Havilland also made the DH.88 Comet Racer which preceded the DH.106 Comet Airliner and SBAC Airshows were held elsewhere before 1948!

[@DeadlyKiss000]

@@HighFlight You are so sweet! Thank you for softening the blow for me for being in the wrong. You are a true gentleman Sir!

[@HighFlight]

@@DeadlyKiss000 None of us learn without getting some things wrong and some of the best inventions were made by mistakes! Never be afraid to get something wrong or to ask questions.😊👍

[@davidweston9115]

fast taxi runs are depressing, I wish the old birds were parked at airports on the coast so these old birds could fly out over the sea for a while to keep their wings in order. Then only the crew is risking their life, and most crews are glad to do that for this purpose, I'd do it every day. It beats smoking cigarettes and is less likely to kill you too. Also I'm happy to see that dog so calm in front of the jet aeroplane as it taxis. Some dogs would be scared to death from that.

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

The Comet was not retired because of economic reasons, ir is no longer safe to fly because of fatigue damage... these aircraft were not built to last as long as modern jet aircraft and quickly reached the end of the expected service life, many were retire before reaching their limit when damage was discovered during inspections.

[@petemaly8950]

​@@sandervanderkammen9230 *_The airframe of that particular Comet is particularly robust & would be capable of flight to max rated altitude with full pressurisation._* Kharzeestan Krappenz DiktorBummer Jurkzxoffenz etc and co - they should note good with much awestruckness & many extreme wondermentals. *UPDATE MORE BREAKING NEWS ETC* *_It's interesting that some of the aircraft on the list should really have been noticeably safer than the Comet due to being a similar type but of much later design & manufacture but they definately were not safer._* How things were back then - *_Accident losses - % of aircraft built._* DeHavilland Comet 4 UK 14% DeHavilland Comet all mks 17% Vickers VC10 UK 5% *_The DH Comet had better safety than or similar safety to many other commercial passenger aircraft of a similar era_* Douglas DC-1 99% Douglas DC-2 47% Douglas DC-3 30% Douglas DC-4 26% Boeing s300 72% Boeing 307 70% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed Electra Turboprop 29% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Sud Aviation Caravelle 15% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% A comparison of more recent aircraft. Accident losses comparison examples. 1970s - 1980s % of total Aircraft built Similar aircraft type, date / decade, useage, size. Biz Jets BAe-125-800 1.7 % Beechcraft Beechjet 400 2.2 % Cessna 550 Citation II 7.1 % Learjet 35 / 36 12 % Beechcraft 1900 6% Dassault Falcon 10 11.5% Aérospatiale SN.601 22.5% Medium size jets / Turboprops. BAe-146 5.1% Fokker 100 6% McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 9.5% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% Beechcraft, Fokker, McDonnell Douglass, Learjet, Fairchild, Aerospatiale, Canadair, Convair companies defunct. All Comets, including some Comet 1s, had full civilian use certification at some point after 1954, civilian use certification only being withdrawn after commercial flying stopped. Examples were flying until 1997 - one example did a signals research global circumnavigation flight series in 1993 via Australia virtually without a rest travelling 28000 miles, only had an ice warning indicator issue during the flights. *The DH Comet - World Firsts.* 1st gas turbine jet powered airliner. 1st high altitude 8psi pressurised full fuselage length passenger cabin airliner, not a trivial feature as structure strength required for pressurisation considerably exceeded strength required for normal flying stress. Nobody else had done anything similar before the Comet. The b-47 used 2 relatively small, heavily built pressurised modules (the aircraft where 6 had their wings fold up in 2 months while flying & some had their wings fall off while parked). The 1937 Boeing piston engined airliner pressurised passenger cabin was pressurised to 2 psi only - in fact that could easily be done as the normal unpressurized fuselage cabin structure strength for flying stresses only was all that was needed to be adequate so no significant weight increase issues needed addressing. 1st all hydraulically powered flying surface controls & actuators airliner with under carriage wheel disk brakes + ABS. 1st jet airliner to cross the Atlantic. 1st jet aircraft to do a world circumnavigation flights series. *Of course De Havilland had prior experience building many all metal construction airframe aircraft including thousands of jet powered fighter aircraft that were primarily of metal construction with pressurised cockpits & jet engines built by De-Havilland & we know the world's first all metal construction airframe airliner was built in England in the 1920s by Handley Page.* *_De Havilland did indeed always work to better than industry standards at the time, no evidence of negligence ever being produced in relation to the DH Comet._* The course of De Havilland & the general UK aerospace industry sector was not affected even slightly by the DH Comet. *_Other interesting World firsts_* _World's first turboprop aircraft._ *Vickers Viscount Turboprop Airliner 1947.* *A 1945 Gloster Meteor Aircraft with Turboprop Gas Turbine Engine.* They might like to answer these questions. *Which airline has just ordered* *60 RR England Trent XWB Engines* *& What aircraft are the engines for?* _Bonus question for 10 points._ Which country has the *World's Highest Combined Per Capita* *Nuclear + Defence + Aerospace Sector Activity?* 👍 Cheers 🙂 . .... . ... . ... .. ... ... .......... Ivcxivxcvcxvcxcvccvvcxcv

[@petemaly8950]

​@@sandervanderkammen9230 Kharzeestan Krappenz DiktorBummer Jurkzxoffenz etc and co - they should all note good with much awe & extreme wonder. *UPDATE MORE BREAKING NEWS ETC* The Comet was designed with military use in mind, Nimrod work started at De Havilland in 1953. The committee did not find hundreds of fatal flaws or evidence of design defects, structural defects, defective materials or shoddy workmanship. Ripstop provision was included. Claimed incidents did not involve cracks starting from window corners. The engine & engine intake position had advantages, were not flaws or fatal flaws & were not the cause of any incidents involving any Comet or Nimrod aircraft. Nearly all changes before the Comet 4 were just in case or were previously scheduled improvements. Bow-wing & the 707 story (see b-47 wing folding incidents) is the result of global economics & the well protected & very large domestic US airliner market & active support from the UK with for instance proposed Competing airliners from Vickers & DH being blocked by the UK govt & UK airlines, cheap nasty & in large numbers was required. The 707 was of course a much larger aircraft which as a stressed skin metal airframe aircraft would require a thicker skin anyway. They got lucky at the time essentially. Bow-wing is the result of the large & well protected US domestic airliner market The fate of De Havilland was due to Govt policy Aerospace sector rationalisation & global economics, it was nothing to do with the Comet. A comprehensive, thorough & protracted testing program was carried out on the prototype & it's assemblies. Of course the Comet did indeed have Ripstop stop provision. De Havilland (Of England) Comets were not grounded after 1970 due to structural problems. *_It's interesting that some of the aircraft on the list should really have been noticeably safer than the Comet due to being a similar type but of much later design & manufacture but they definately were not safer._* How things were back then - *_Accident losses - % of aircraft built._* DeHavilland Comet 4 UK 14% DeHavilland Comet all mks 17% Vickers VC10 UK 5% *_The DH Comet had better safety than or similar safety to many other commercial passenger aircraft of a similar era_* Douglas DC-1 99% Douglas DC-2 47% Douglas DC-3 30% Douglas DC-4 26% Boeing s300 72% Boeing 307 70% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed L-049/149 Constellation 30% Lockheed Electra Turboprop 29% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Sud Aviation Caravelle 15% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% A comparison of more recent aircraft. Accident losses comparison examples. 1970s - 1980s % of total Aircraft built Similar aircraft type, date / decade, useage, size. Biz Jets BAe-125-800 1.7 % Beechcraft Beechjet 400 2.2 % Cessna 550 Citation II 7.1 % Learjet 35 / 36 12 % Beechcraft 1900 6% Dassault Falcon 10 11.5% Aérospatiale SN.601 22.5% Medium size jets / Turboprops. BAe-146 5.1% Fokker 100 6% McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 9.5% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% Beechcraft, Fokker, McDonnell Douglass, Learjet, Fairchild, Aerospatiale, Canadair, Convair companies defunct. All Comets, including some Comet 1s, had full civilian use certification at some point after 1954, civilian use certification only being withdrawn after commercial flying stopped. Examples were flying until 1997 - one example did a signals research global circumnavigation flight series in 1993 via Australia virtually without a rest travelling 28000 miles, only had an ice warning indicator issue during the flights. *The DH Comet - World Firsts.* 1st gas turbine jet powered airliner. 1st high altitude 8psi pressurised full fuselage length passenger cabin airliner, not a trivial feature as structure strength required for pressurisation considerably exceeded strength required for normal flying stress. Nobody else had done anything similar before the Comet. The b-47 used 2 relatively small, heavily built pressurised modules (the aircraft where 6 had their wings fold up in 2 months while flying & some had their wings fall off while parked). The 1937 Boeing piston engined airliner pressurised passenger cabin was pressurised to 2 psi only - in fact that could easily be done as the normal unpressurized fuselage cabin structure strength for flying stresses only was all that was needed to be adequate so no significant weight increase issues needed addressing. 1st all hydraulically powered flying surface controls & actuators airliner with under carriage wheel disk brakes + ABS. 1st jet airliner to cross the Atlantic. 1st jet aircraft to do a world circumnavigation flights series. *Of course De Havilland had prior experience building many all metal construction airframe aircraft including thousands of jet powered fighter aircraft that were primarily of metal construction with pressurised cockpits & jet engines built by De-Havilland & we know the world's first all metal construction airframe airliner was built in England in the 1920s by Handley Page.* *_De Havilland did indeed always work to better than industry standards at the time, used up to date knowledge for the design & no evidence of negligence or criminal negligence was ever produced in relation to the DH Comet._* The course of De Havilland & the general UK aerospace industry sector was not affected even slightly by the DH Comet. The course of national aerospace sectors obviously being similar & inevitable in many countries. *_Other interesting World firsts_* _World's first turboprop aircraft._ *Vickers Viscount Turboprop Airliner 1947.* *A 1945 Gloster Meteor Aircraft with Turboprop Gas Turbine Engine.* They might like to answer these questions. *Which airline has just ordered* *60 RR England Trent XWB Engines* *& What aircraft are the engines for?* _Bonus question for 10 points._ Which country has the *World's Highest Combined Per Capita* *Nuclear + Defence + Aerospace Sector Activity?* 👍 & 🙂 & of course 😎 indeed. *C H E E R S* & without doubt - _Toodle_ -PIP- *Old* *_C H A P._* This line left not blank intentionally. The next line is blank obviously. . .... . ... .. . . ... .. ... .... .... ............ ..... . Ivcxivcxiv cxcxcvccbcc xcxiivxccxvvc ccvvcvvv vcvc vivcxiccvccvx xccvvvcxcvcx

[@MsDenver2]

I don’t see the point in doing a fast taxi , we want to see aircraft fly

[@HighFlight]

The point is that it can't fly safely and will never fly again without millions of pounds being spent to restore it, which is very unlikely to happen. So the next best thing is to run the engines and see and hear it moving, which is preferable to it just sitting in a museum.

[@alejandrovidal6441]

@@HighFlight Right.

[@cieludbjrg4706]

@@HighFlight Just in theory, since it can taxi, can it fly below "pressure height"? Considered there are plenty of operable DC3s and a very few Junker Ju 52 ("Tante Ju"). Then again, they’re propeller aircraft, much smaller… OTH again, there is still a Constellation (and several old bombers…) still airworthy… All you need is a truckload of money…

[@HighFlight]

@@cieludbjrg4706 Sorry for a long delay in replying here. I don't know the condition of the airframe but think that although it could be made to fly it would indeed take an awful lot of time and money. It's been stored out in the open and elements for many years now. Unfortunately also the aircraft here can no longer use the taxi ways and runway as the airfield has been sold to a company that stores 'unwanted' new cars there!

[@johnarnehansen9574]

This plane ought to be restored to it's former glory!..

[@sandervanderkammen9230]

Considering the fatigue damage and the lack of any spare parts, restoring any Comet back to flight worthy status is outside the realm of possibility.

[@petemaly8950]

Kharzeestan Krappenz DiktorBummer Jurkzxoffenz etc and co - they should note good with much awestruckness & many extreme wondermentals. *UPDATE MORE BREAKING NEWS ETC* *_It's interesting that some of the aircraft on the list should really have been noticeably safer than the Comet due to being a similar type but of much later design & manufacture but they definately were not safer._* How things were back then - *_Accident losses - % of aircraft built._* DeHavilland Comet 4 UK 14% DeHavilland Comet all mks 17% Vickers VC10 UK 5% *_The DH Comet had better safety than or similar safety to many other commercial passenger aircraft of a similar era_* Douglas DC-1 99% Douglas DC-2 47% Douglas DC-3 30% Douglas DC-4 26% Boeing s300 72% Boeing 307 70% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed Electra Turboprop 29% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Sud Aviation Caravelle 15% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% A comparison of more recent aircraft. Accident losses comparison examples. 1970s - 1980s % of total Aircraft built Similar aircraft type, date / decade, useage, size. Biz Jets BAe-125-800 1.7 % Beechcraft Beechjet 400 2.2 % Cessna 550 Citation II 7.1 % Learjet 35 / 36 12 % Beechcraft 1900 6% Dassault Falcon 10 11.5% Aérospatiale SN.601 22.5% Medium size jets / Turboprops. BAe-146 5.1% Fokker 100 6% McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 9.5% Fairchild FH-227 30% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Canadair CL-44 Turboprop 46% Convair CV-580 Turboprop 22% Beechcraft, Fokker, McDonnell Douglass, Learjet, Fairchild, Aerospatiale, Canadair, Convair companies defunct. All Comets, including some Comet 1s, had full civilian use certification at some point after 1954, civilian use certification only being withdrawn after commercial flying stopped. Examples were flying until 1997 - one example did a signals research global circumnavigation flight series in 1993 via Australia virtually without a rest travelling 28000 miles, only had an ice warning indicator issue during the flights. *The DH Comet - World Firsts.* 1st gas turbine jet powered airliner. 1st high altitude 8psi pressurised full fuselage length passenger cabin airliner, not a trivial feature as structure strength required for pressurisation considerably exceeded strength required for normal flying stress. Nobody else had done anything similar before the Comet. The b-47 used 2 relatively small, heavily built pressurised modules (the aircraft where 6 had their wings fold up in 2 months while flying & some had their wings fall off while parked). The 1937 Boeing piston engined airliner pressurised passenger cabin was pressurised to 2 psi only - in fact that could easily be done as the normal unpressurized fuselage cabin structure strength for flying stresses only was all that was needed to be adequate so no significant weight increase issues needed addressing. 1st all hydraulically powered flying surface controls & actuators airliner with under carriage wheel disk brakes + ABS. 1st jet airliner to cross the Atlantic. 1st jet aircraft to do a world circumnavigation flights series. *Of course De Havilland had prior experience building many all metal construction airframe aircraft including thousands of jet powered fighter aircraft that were primarily of metal construction with pressurised cockpits & jet engines built by De-Havilland & we know the world's first all metal construction airframe airliner was built in England in the 1920s by Handley Page.* *_De Havilland did indeed always work to better than industry standards at the time, no evidence of negligence ever being produced in relation to the DH Comet._* The course of De Havilland & the general UK aerospace industry sector was not affected even slightly by the DH Comet. *_Other interesting World firsts_* _World's first turboprop aircraft._ *Vickers Viscount Turboprop Airliner 1947.* *A 1945 Gloster Meteor Aircraft with Turboprop Gas Turbine Engine.* They might like to answer these questions. *Which airline has just ordered* *60 RR England Trent XWB Engines* *& What aircraft are the engines for?* _Bonus question for 10 points._ Which country has the *World's Highest Combined Per Capita* *Nuclear + Defence + Aerospace Sector Activity?* 👍 Cheers 🙂 . .... . ... .. Icvxcvxcvcxbcxcvovi

[@Daventent]

People and pilots there didn't survive that flight .... sure.

[@ahmadfariszikri4995]

Dont pressurise the cabin though!

[@HighFlight]

Why? It hasn't got square windows!

[@JakubPyrachewsky]

@@HighFlight Finally it was revealed that it wasn't window shape that caused catastrophes but their rivetting mount. We talked about that case on lessons for engineers about fatigue in materials in my UTC Aerospace Systems division.

[@peterbradshaw8018]

Oh bwoy the devil lies in the details. How many cycles was this thing certified for anyway.

[@terrybaptist795]

@@peterbradshaw8018 I heard from some where else about 10.000 cycles.

[@natsu1666]

Who is here because of Swiss ?

[@waynestruckshorts]

Me

[@seannillson2126]

Смешно! Столько шума из ничего! Вылететь испугались😁😁😁. Трусы.

[@cyrilclark5167]

What, no ear defenders and a dog! Very poor health & safety.

[@Phoenixspin]

Don't taxi with square windows!!

[@allejoseven415]

Crash aeronave

[@user-yk4gd1fl4z]

lol, could be the nosiest jet ever made in the history of the universe, and not a set of ear protection between the lot of em and 1 dog.

[@royalanania3306]

It's a beautiful ❤️ aircraft ,and it's engine configuration is really unique. Save her