Originally Posted by
RedhillPhil
The front end looks quite nice but it looks like someone ran out of ideas at the back. Bit like the Comet which I thought looked like the jet age at the nose and the propeller age at the tail.
You're thinkng of the Caravelle by Sud Aviation; they did copy the Comet design for the front end of that(and by the way, did you know they originally tested the design on a Horsa glider to see if it worked?)