Originally Posted by
RetiredBA/BY
What would be the point. Did any airline fly both Comets and Caravelles?
A good number. But in those times, being qualified on two types was not uncommon.
Originally Posted by
DHfan
I'm absolutely certain that I've read somewhere that the Comet nose design was licenced by Sud-Aviation from de Havilland for the Caravelle so I would expect it to be identical. I've always assumed it was external, and presumably structure, rather than anything more.
More than that, the nose/front end was actually designed by De Havilland at Hatfield, and for the first few Caravelles was actually built there and shipped over.
With the De Havilland nose/flight deck, Rolls-Royce engines, and a string of systems subassemblies from the UK, who in the 1950s were second only to the USA for aerospace sourcing, the Caravelle had a lot of UK value in it.