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Movie that foreshadowed a tragic true event.

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The movie Is an English film called Highway in the Sky with Jimmy Stewart. He plays a scientist that predicts the failure of the tail on a new airliner do to stress. The movie came out in 1951. That's one year before the de Havilland Comet entered service in 1952. The de Havilland Comets suffered 3 explosive decompressions. When tested they found that the windows squares corners concentrated stress to a small point inducing a crack and the following explosive decompression. Changing to rounded corners on the windows solved the problem. The damage was done and people didn't want to fly on the Comet even though after the repairs and upgrade it was a good airplane.
 
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sanford12 said:
The movie Is an English film called Highway in the Sky with Jimmy Stewart. He plays a scientist that predicts the failure of the tail on a new airliner do to stress. The movie came out in 1951. That's one year before the de Havilland Comet entered service in 1952. The Comet de Havilland Comets suffered 3 explosive decompression. When tested they found that the windows squares corners concentrated stress to a small point inducing a crack and the following explosive decompression. Changing to rounded corners on the windows solved the problem. The damage was done and people didn't want to fly on the Comet even though after the repairs and upgrade it was a good airplane.
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There are many examples. Too many to list.
 
Title was actually "No Highway in the Sky". Way back, when I was a grad student in Materials Engineering at MIT, they showed this movie during a Friday Happy Hour. It was promoted as the only movie where the metallurgist gets the girl. When the movie tried to explain how the cracking happened, the room erupted in laughter - they sort of used the correct words - but got them completely jumbled up. It was a true phenomenon & did lead to having rounded window corners on airplanes - but the actual explanation would have bored a movie audience.

Good memories - thanks.
 
Actually I think it was arguably the first full length movie, Birth of a Nation, 1915, quickly followed by The Fall of a Nation, 1916. Movies. Don't read the books, watch the movies and go from there. Then there is A Beautiful Mind, rich, and of course Wag the Dog. All said in fun and good cheer but, depending on perspective, quite interesting, the messages they deliver.
 
Very interesting thread subject if we can stay away from the you-know-what.
One thing that amazes me is how fast technology has advanced in the last 100 years. I don’t think the people who saw the first automobiles thought they would see the first man on the moon.
The surveillance state is nearly inconceivable to me.
All stuff only a creative mind could conjure up in advance of it becoming reality.
 
grillebilly said:
Very interesting thread subject if we can stay away from the you-know-what.
One thing that amazes me is how fast technology has advanced in the last 100 years. I don’t think the people who saw the first automobiles thought they would see the first man on the moon.
The surveillance state is nearly inconceivable to me.
All stuff only a creative mind could conjure up in advance of it becoming reality.
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I'd change creative to observant mind, the word conjure is often most perfect.
 
Last week in a news piece about recent air-emergencies and crashes, they replayed an older account about a Boeing losing its composite-construction tail. Apparently the manual controls had a very small range-of-motion and it was easy to rapidly swing the rudder to extremes. The pilot was trying to compensate for turbulence and over-reacted. The composite material couldn't withstand the stress. I thought it was interesting how the problem was solved.
 
The China Syndrome- which premiered just 12 days before the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island.

In a related topic, the book, Futility had an incredible number of close similarities to the Titanic disaster, not least of which was the name of the fictional doomed ship: Titan.
 
62caddy said:
The China Syndrome- which premiered just 12 days before the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island.

In a related topic, the book, Futility had an incredible number of close similarities to the Titanic disaster, not least of which was the name of the fictional doomed ship: Titan.
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Well done!
 
Wait!, , , , you mean "Wheels of Tragedy" and "Signal 30" weren't filmed AFTER the fact????

Damn

Who Knew :dunno:

;)
 
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