Originally Posted by
LTNman
No mention that the Comet landed on a grass runway. Maybe the first grass runway landing of a passenger jet anywhere in the world seeing that there was only the Comet.
I am assuming Hatfield had a contrete runway it this time.
Nevil Shute's 'In the Wet' written in the early fifties but set in the eighties seems to regard operation of jet transports from grass as routine. The hero, David Anderson, flies the Queen's Flight's imaginary De Haviland Ceres to and from White Waltham, putting it down upon the grass after the sheep have been herded away.