Comet 4 Series Crew
 

Have flown on a BOAC Comet 4 in First Class as a boy and then years later on Concorde. Would like to hear from both pilots and cabin crew of you experiences operating the Comet. Cannot find any interviews of air hostesses/stewards who operated on the Comet. Like to also know how the thrust reversers on the Comet were used.
Being a seasoned traveller in Viscounts as a boy my first experience of jet travel was the Comet 4 and the aircraft climbed like a rocket compared to the Viscount.
Hearing four Rolls Royce Avon Engines roaring away was so exciting both as a passenger and when one flew low overhead.

The man who wrote this book has written about both

Try and join the Dan Air Facebook group, the crew loved it!

You might like to read the book "Comets and Concorde" which is written by Peter Duffy who aver his long career as a pilot flew Comet 1 , Comet 4, and Concorde. It is still available on Amazon

You might also like to trawl through these two websites. They contain many BOAC stories of VC10s and other aircraft:-

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