Bill Gunston - good. Mike Ramsden - good. The FO's - good. But what has that got to do with the cover-up?
What went on was an absolute disgrace. From the moment that aeroplane was built it was an accident waiting to happen. The corners cut were tantamount to criminal negilence, yet not one of the designers, or directors was bought to book when it was so blatantly obvious that they should have been.
The revelations in written form were an indication of how politicians and men in power can manipulate anything they want to. That they manipulated this aeroplane to early destruction is wicked.
Bishop, as head of design, has had his memory degraded by the programme, and that goes for de Havilland too. And quite rightly judging by the standards they adopted. Especially reducing the skin thickness from 14g down to 20g.
Certainly blaming pilots was obviously the 'easy option'. As used to be the case then. Thank God we have now a responsible body to discover actual cause.
Fortunately, the Comet lived after they went back to the drawing board, and removed all the devious schemes. But sad to say that the 1000 planned only reached 75. If only..................