Re: Broken wing

They also used a high pressure sea level cabin, modern
pressurized aircraft use a lower differential pressure,
maybe 8-9 PSI for a 9,000 foot cabin at max cruise altitude.
The Comet was a victim of design, fabrication and
operational methods.


--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

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Jim Macklin
"George Patterson" <grpphoto@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Stubby wrote:
| > Way back, I believe the first jet passenger jet was the
Lockheed
| > Electra. The plane mysteriously fell out of the air and
very thorough
| > search for a cause was instituted.
|
| Sounds like you're confusing it with the DeHaviland Comet.
The cause was
| eventually determined to be the rapid formation of stress
cracks around the
| corners of the rectangular cabin windows.
|
| George Patterson
| Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by
rights belong to
| your slightly older self.


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