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Old 29th Jul 2013, 17:20
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Thumbs down demonstrator issue

Wasn't part of the problem with the Comet that it was a demonstrator (i.e. pre-production one-off) which was built to finer tolerances (hand-built rather than using the jigs and tools for mass production) than the final production run airframes, meaning that 'bugs' in the design did not show up until the Comet was in service?
In a word NO NO NO

Thumbnail - had to do with square corners on windows versus rounded- result was a stress riser - and no ' crack stoppers " pressurization cycles fatigued body panels.

but this is way off topic.
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