Comet Documentary
Did anyone watch this?
I was quite keen to see it following last year's Concorde doc.
This was all a bit before my time, so it raises some questions in my mind, foremost of which is that wasn't the ARB in existence then, and if so, what degree of monitoring took place during the Comet test program? Was it considered sufficient to allow DH tps ( no slur intended here ) to test such a radical design without the ARB putting it's own tps on board? Is it really true that every post war DH design suffered an inflight structural failure? And was it true that no major fatigue testing took place until after the second grounding? Is there an ex DH or ARB tp/eng who can shed any light? A fascinating story to be sure, but was it accurate?
MB