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Part 2

 

[Sandy G]

Awww, man ! The immortal DC-3 !! The Gooney Bird ! Dakota, C-47, whatever name you know it by, was one of the first really successful airliners. Before the DC-3s time, airline flying was really something for the adventurous-or foolish. And they used 'em for just about EVERYTHING in WW2-transports, flying hospitals, you name it, a DC-3 has probably done it. I'm sure somewhere, even now a Gooney is out plowing the skies, earning its keep.-Sandy G.

 

[Rex B]

Kinda doubt it. The original Comets had a disconcerting tendency to blow up & fall out of the sky. The culprit was metal fatigue, caused by square cornered windows. Now you know why all modern jets have the round cornered windows. The Comet IVs, which were re-designed & fixed the really bad faults, came on the market about the same time as the 707 & DC-8, which were bigger & faster airplanes, & the Comet already had a "bad name", so they never really succeeded. The RAF used a variant of the design, the "Nimrod", I believe, for all sorts of duties-AWACs, anti-sub work, etc. The Comet may have been a commercial failure,but was a success in many other ways.-Sandy G.

Metal fatigue caused by something relatively new to the aviation world at that point - pressurization.

 

[Telecolor 3007]

Ha-Ha-Ha. You felt for it! :huge: :yes: That ain't no "Douglas". That's an Soviet "Lisunov" LI 1-2-3..., copy of the "Douglas"

 

[Telecolor 3007]

No one knows any other airplane forums?!
It's a pitty that only 5 "Lockheed" Constellation survived :worried: :cry:
By the way, at the end of the movie "American Grafitti" an old 4 engines (with pistons) apears. What plane is that?
What other shiny 4 engines old planes do ya know?