*_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 were clearly not safer than the Comet_* 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 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15% All Comets had full civilian use certification at some point after 1954 civilian use certification only being withdrawn after commercial flying stopped.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._*
*_Air travel safety often depends on British made and or designed tech or British aerospace advanced technology, R&D, science & Engineering._* *For anybody currently flying on a widebody airliner there's a good possibility that the engines will be RR gas turbine aero engines designed & built in England with those engines being monitored by people in an English county.* England, the home country of RR (aero engine stuff) & it's lands counties & shires will of course be producing the 🎺📯🎺 *_RR Trent Ultrafan_* *The worlds largest gas turbine aero engine.* 👍🎺📯🎺 A typical example of what goes in the very internationally orientated British aerospace sector - Boeing Apache Attack Helicopter. AH-64: 75 UK suppliers, 7% UK content, global fleet of 1280+ aircraft.
A list of aircraft a professional anti Comet activist (Krappen / Kharzeestan etc) sometimes posts here & there now & again. Presented here with corrections added. NAWO = Not Accident Write-off wfu = withdrawn from use TF = Training Flight wo = Write-off -G_APDN 1970- *NAWO hit big runway pot hole* -G_ARCO 1967- *NAWO Bomb on board* SU_ALD 1963 Severe Turbulence on Approach LV_AHR 1961 Night T/O bad weather hit trees G_ALYP 1954 & -G_ALYP 1953- *_2 x Listed_* G_ARJM 1961 Over rotation during takeoff SU_AMW 1962 hit mountain while descending G_ALYY. 1954 & SA_R_7 1963 & Hit mountain peak SA(SU)_ALC 1971 Sandstorm crash CF_CUN 1953 & LV_AHP 1959 & G-APDH 1964 Gear collapse heavy landing -XP915 1971- *NAWO wfu 1975* G_ALYZ 1952 & G_APDL. 1970 & F_BGSC 1953 & -LV_AHN 1970- *NAWO wfu 1974* SU_ALE 1970 Engine failure. Field landing. SU_ANI 1970 & -OD_ADS 1968- *NAWO Military Beirut* -OD_ADQ 1968- *NAWO Military Beirut* -OD_ADR- 1968- *NAWO Military Beirut* -G_ALYR 1953- *NAWO Ground Handling error* -G_APMD 1965- *NAWO wfu 1975* -G_APMF 1964- *NAWO wfu 1974* G_APDL 1959 Gear up landing -G_APDN 1964- *_2 x Listed_* -G_ARJN 1963- *NAWO wfu 1985* -G_APDF 1959- *NAWO wfu 1985* -XK663 1959- *NAWO (Fire in Hangar)* -G_APDM 1962- *_2 x List NAWO_* -G_APDA 1959- *NAWO* -G_APDB 1959- *_2 x List NAWO_* -G_APDM 1961- *_2 x List NAWO_* -G_APDB 1960- *_2 x List NAWO_* -G_APDS 1960- *_NAWO wfu 1994_* LV_AHO 1960 TF heavy landing wo Out of 39 claimed accident write offs only 18 actually exist in this list. This one listed twice in the Krappenz list is interesting. _*G-APDB *_ Comet 4 - Preserved *Worlds first commercial jet flight Atlantic Crossing.* *_NOT AN ACCIDENT LOSS AIRCRAFT_* XP915 1971 Comet 3 First Jet aircraft to circumnavigate the world Preserved. Brief comparison Accident Losses % of aircraft built. Comet All Mks 17% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed Electra 29%
*_G-APDM for example had two incidents caused by pilot error._* _Repaired on both occasions._ Carried on flying for DAN Air until it was retired in 1974. *G-APDF was repaired after an incident & eventually in 1992 carried out a global circumnavigation flight series via Australia as a signals research aircraft before being withdrawn from use & used for spares.*
@sandervanderkammen9230 *UPDATE* *_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._* *_Fryed Ryce Muncherz krappenz kharzeestan DikterBummer etc shud note deferentially with huge gr8 awe much respect please too._* 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% All Comets had full civilian use certification 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._* Xxcvii
Wonderfull! That iconic view of the fabulous streamlined fuel tank takes me back to my childhood and the same view out of an East African Airways Comet 4 on family trips to “home” from Kenya. I assume this was a delivery or promotional flight seeing Cats Eyes Cunningham was in the drivers seat .
Just came across this, absolutely fantastic. The first airliner I flew on was a Comet belonging to BEA, although I remember precious little of it as I was about 4 years old! Superb restoration, well done sir.
@@sandervanderkammen9230 *_Fryed Ryce Muncherz shud note-_* How things were back then - *_Accident losses - % of aircraft built._* DeHavilland Comet 4 UK 14% DeHavilland Comet all mks 17% _DH Comet 1 22% or 27% or 31%_ _(2 or 1 or 0 of the DH Comet 1_ _losses were definite ground_ _handling error caused write-offs)._ Vickers VC10 UK 5% *_The DH Comet 1 aircraft specifically had better safety than or similar safety to many other commercial passenger aircraft_* Douglas DC-1 99% Douglas DC-2 47% Douglas DC-3 30% Douglas DC-4 26% Boeing s300 72% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed Electra 29%
@@sandervanderkammen9230 @sandervanderkammen9230 *UPDATE* *_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._* *_Fryed Ryce Muncherz krappenz kharzeestan DikterBummer etc shud note deferentially with huge gr8 awe much respect please too._* 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% All Comets had full civilian use certification 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._* . .. .. Xcvviixxxx
How I miss those days when it was possible to visit the cockpit in flight and see how the other half lived. Before 9/11 it was very common, especially for children, to be escorted up to the cockpit for a visit.
All Comet 1 aircraft were grounded and their airworthiness certification was permanently revoked. The completely redesigned Comet 4 flew in 1958 and was grounded due to safety problems in 1980.
What an absolutely gorgeous piece of film. The spoilers, the takeoff reflections in the wing slipper tank.... Bravo! A fairly crunching arrival at 7:10 mind you :-)
@@sandervanderkammen9230 *_Fryed Ryce Muncherz shud note-_* How things were back then - *_Accident losses - % of aircraft built._* De Havilland Comet 4 UK 14% All Comet Mks 17% Vickers VC10 UK 5%. *_The DH Comet 1 aircraft specifically had better safety than or similar safety to many other commercial passenger aircraft from a similar time period_* Douglas DC-1 99%. Douglas DC-2 47% Douglas DC-3 30% Douglas DC-4 26%. Boeing s300 72% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed Electra 29% Sud Aviation Caravelle 15% McDonnell Douglas DC-8 14% Fairchild 30%
@@sandervanderkammen9230 *Fryed Ryce Muncherz can post up that fictitious list of registration numbers again as claimed proof -* *_then We can list all the ridiculous errors such as Muncherz listing a single aircraft that retired normally in 1975 & stored as 2 accident losses._* *_Fryed Ryce Muncherz shud also note-_* How things were back then - *_Accident losses - % of aircraft built._* De Havilland Comet 4 UK 14% De Havilland Comet all mks 17% _DH Comet 1 22% or 27% or 31%_ _(2 or 1 or 0 of the DH Comet 1_ _losses were definite ground_ _handling error caused write-offs)._ Vickers VC10 UK 5% *_The DH Comet 1 aircraft specifically had better safety than or similar safety to many other commercial passenger aircraft_* Douglas DC-1 99% Douglas DC-2 47% Douglas DC-3 30% Douglas DC-4 26% Boeing s300 72% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed Electra 29%
The worst safety record of any jet airliner in history. The Comet Disaster remains the worst engineering failure commercial jet aircraft and a truly humiliating and shameful chapter British history.
@@sandervanderkammen9230 The SandersVinDurKrappen aircraft comedy channel should probably go to aircraft school for a few years shouldn't they. Accident airframe losses - Boeing 707 20% Lockheed Electra 29% DeHavilland Comet 17%
Soy adicto a la mariguana, me podrían decir cómo salir de esta adicción, ya que fueron los empleados de mexicana de aviación, los que me indujeron a este vicio ?
@@sandervanderkammen9230 *_Fryed Ryce Muncherz shud note-_* How things were back then - *_Accident losses - % of aircraft built._* DeHavilland Comet 4 UK 14% DeHavilland Comet all mks 17% _DH Comet 1 22% or 27% or 31%_ _(2 or 1 or 0 of the DH Comet 1_ _losses were definite ground_ _handling error caused write-offs)._ Vickers VC10 UK 5% *_The DH Comet 1 aircraft specifically had better safety than or similar safety to many other commercial passenger aircraft_* Douglas DC-1 99% Douglas DC-2 47% Douglas DC-3 30% Douglas DC-4 26% Boeing s300 72% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed Electra 29%
@@sandervanderkammen9230 @sandervanderkammen9230 *UPDATE* *_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._* *_Fryed Ryce Muncherz krappenz kharzeestan DikterBummer etc shud note deferentially with huge gr8 awe much respect please too._* 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% All Comets had full civilian use certification 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._*
@@sandervanderkammen9230 @sandervanderkammen9230 The SandersVinDurKrappen aircraft comedy channel should probably go to aircraft school for a few years shouldn't they. As an example. Accident airframe losses % of total built - Boeing 707 20% Lockheed Electra 29% DeHavilland Comet 17%
The Comet was really a masterpiece of engineering and design. See how beautifully and carefully designed are the air intakes (@ 4:48), the air brakes (@3:10), and astonishing angles of flaps (@6:53). It seems to attract a lot of interest, as shown @ 4:39, happy times when people could almost touch the airliners on airport aprons, a plane that most of them could just dream boarding one day…
The design of the jet engine air intakes was a fatal design flaw, based on a British aerodynamic theory that later proved to be completely wrong, the design was responsible for several crashes and one of the reasons why the Comet 1 had its airworthiness certification permanently revoked in 1958. The intake should never be mounted in the leading edge of the wing, this causes pressure recovery problems with the engines at takeoff and disrupted air flow reducing lift at the critical rotation angle/speed.
The Comet had a very poorly designed swept wing due to Britain's lack of knowledge and experience.. the Comet lacked Fowler flaps and leading edge slats or Krueger flaps. The Comet has very poor high altitude takeoff and landing performance and pilots complained about the Comets poor flap design and hydraulic controls.
A truly humiliating shameful and shameful chapter in British history... the Comet is the worst jet airliner in history. It's appalling loss rate of 1 out of every 4 built is poor even by de Havillands terrible reputation for safety... Thankfully the de Havilland company went tits up in 1958 and the skies have become a safer place as a result.
@@sandervanderkammen9230 @sandervanderkammen9230 The SandersVinDurKrappen aircraft comedy channel should probably go to aircraft school for a few years shouldn't they. As an example. Accident airframe losses % of total built - Boeing 707 20% Lockheed Electra 29% DeHavilland Comet 17%
@@sandervanderkammen9230 @sandervanderkammen9230 *_Fryed Ryce Muncherz shud note-_* How things were back then - *_Accident losses - % of aircraft built._* DeHavilland Comet 4 UK 14% DeHavilland Comet all mks 17% _DH Comet 1 22% or 27% or 31%_ _(2 or 1 or 0 of the DH Comet 1_ _losses were definite ground_ _handling error caused write-offs)._ Vickers VC10 UK 5% *_The DH Comet 1 aircraft specifically had better safety than or similar safety to many other commercial passenger aircraft_* Douglas DC-1 99% Douglas DC-2 47% Douglas DC-3 30% Douglas DC-4 26% Boeing s300 72% Boeing 247 48% Boeing 707 20% Lockheed Electra 29%
@@sandervanderkammen9230 @sandervanderkammen9230 *UPDATE* *_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._* *_Fryed Ryce Muncherz krappenz kharzeestan DikterBummer etc shud note deferentially with huge gr8 awe much respect please too._* 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% All Comets had full civilian use certification 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._* . . . . Xcvcx
Hi Édouard! Not sure if you check RU-vid (I emailed what I believe to be your company). I'd love to use your footage of the de Havilland Comet in my documentary about the plane. Is this possible? I see there is a Creative Commons license. I wasn't sure if you filmed this, or if you could please let me know the source. My email is: cindy@cindypom.com or responding to this comment works as well. Thank you.
XA-NAS ended up abandoned at Chicago O'Hare Airport, where it was ultimately scrapped. It had been purchased by Dick Drost who owned a Nudist Colony. He was going to use it to fly passengers to his place in Naked City, Indiana.
Beautiful film footage of excellent quality - and rare, at that. Sister ship, XA-NAR, at the Museum of Flight, will soon be restored to her former Mexicana glory. Muchisimas gracias - thank you very much for this outstanding video,
Luck was on their side! Comets were falling off the sky because design flaws on the fuselage rivets around the windows creating fatal depressurized incidents as they broke apart inflight grounding them!
@@buihelgason That's because it was a Comet! First commercial jetliner, first one to experience the unknown problem of pressurization induced metal fatigue and first one to fix the problem. All the other airline manufacturers benefited from De Havilland's research and sad losses. I flew many Comets in the early 1960's, they were like a sports car, very quick take off and powerful engines that meant it could use shorter and higher runways.
@@buihelgason There was nothing much wrong with the design and its aerodynamics. They used thin alloy to keep weight down as the early engines were not very powerful. Then came the pressurisation and accelerated fatigue problems. Once they were better understood the fuselage was reengineered and more powerful Avon engines replaced the Ghosts producing an excellent aircraft that gave 60 years service if you include the Nimrod that were constructed using existing Comet airframes. The Nimrod gave 40 years service and was an extraordinarily good maritime patrol and anti submarine aircraft. De Havilland saved Boeing by giving them all the data they accumulated during the Comet fatigue testing. Boeing have acknowledged the contribution it made to the safety of the 707.
Excellent quality, I could well imagine that a perfectly decent 4k scan could be pulled from this format. The consistent speed of the action seems to indicate that the camera used to capture these images was motor driven as opposed to the more popular, by nature of cost, hand cranked models perhaps.
Ok My first flight in a jet was on the the comet ( Malaysia Airlines) PEN- SIN Comet was ex BOAC. I was 16 What a lovely plane. Pity none flying. One thing though . If I were a first class passenger , do I have to wait for all the riff-raff to board before I can take my seat? There are two entrances; but the main one is at the back. The small entrance at the front is " for the crew" QUE
Beautiful film of this Comet and also we could see the most important airports in Venezuela at the time, Grano de Oro in Maracaibo and Simon Bolivar in Maiquetia .It has been the most clear documentary I've ever seen about those two airports . Thank you so much for sharing this jewel!!!
The Old "GRANO DE ORO" Airport at MARACAIBO CITY in Venezuela.....what a JEWEL of Film!!!.... this is an Historical document about Venezuelan Aviation and the History of this city!!!
Yes.. Those were the early Comet 1.... then came 2 and 3... This is the Comet 4 , completely re - design and very safe..,There were the Comet 4 , 4b and 4c.. This film is of the Comet 4c with wing pods for greater fuel range.. Dan Air operated all Comet variety from London Gatwick during the 60 's , 70' s 80 's and early 90 ' s. These were lovely aircraft..
@@SamsungTab-zq7rk That is not true, Comet 1, 2 has there airworthiness certification permanently revoked in 1958, Comet 3 was never type rated. The Comet 4 had the worst safety record of any jet airliner (2nd to the C1) in service. The Comet 4 had an appalling 1 in 4 loss rate.
@@timhancock6626 The Comet 4 was retired after just 2 decades in service due to premature fatigue failures. The Hawker Siddeley H.S.801 Nimrod is a completely different aircraft that was designed decades later. It has a different type certificate and is a completely different aircraft designed by Hawker Siddeley. The Nimrod too was grounded after a serious accident, premature metal fatigue in the wing spars during a safety stand down grounded the entire fleet and was withdrawn from service. Plans to completely rebuild Nimrod airframes into the upgraded MRA4 series was cancelled after no destructive testing revealed extensive fatigue damage to all of the existing airframes and there were not enough remaining parts to refurbish to complete the few aircraft needed.
@@sandervanderkammen9230 _Fryed Ryce Muncherz kharzeestan Krappenz DiktorBummer etc and co Shud note deferentially with great respect for their velly much infinitely superior superiors etc & so on._ *The first Comet to fly, the prototype G-ALVG was not involved in any incidents.* *_Air travel safety often depends on British made and or designed tech or British aerospace advanced technology, R&D, science & Engineering._* *For anybody currently flying on a widebody airliner there's a good possibility that the engines will be RR gas turbine aero engines designed & built in England with those engines being monitored by people in an English county.* The home country of RR (aero engine stuff) & it's lands counties & shires will of course be producing the 🎺📯🎺 *_RR Trent Ultrafan_* _The worlds largest gas turbine aero engine_
@@sandervanderkammen9230 @sandervanderkammen9230 *UPDATE* *_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._* *_Fryed Ryce Muncherz krappenz kharzeestan DikterBummer etc shud note deferentially with huge gr8 awe much respect please too._* 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% All Comets had full civilian use certification 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._* .. .. . . Xvvii
Thanks to all. Not knowing much about planes I must confess but way more about film scanning. Just had the opportunity to share what was to me a well filmed 16 mm on an interesting subject. The idea was to show that 50 odd years later the film is still here in a shape that is good enough to be used and work on. Glad it found a public to appreciate it. Cheers from NZ
