Originally Posted by
A30yoyo
In addition to the Comet project being at the painful end of the learning curve for pressurized fuselage design didn't it also bring about the formalization of take-off procedures for jet airliners (V1, V2, rotate....)?
I believe that was a result of the Canadian Pacific loss at Karachi on its delivery flight, which killed not only the crew but all the key members of the CP Comet purchase and introduction team who were on board. Their second aircraft was never delivered, and was sold instead to BOAC.
I remember there was a Comet 4 sitting at KORD for many, many years...tied up in legal difficulties.
That was former Mexicana XA-NAS, which worked through various dealers in the US from the 1970s-90s without ever being used. A onetime regular PPRuNe poster was the flight engineer on that last flight from Albuquerque into O'Hare - apparently none of the crew had even been in a Comet before !
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