The log covers the formative years of the Comet and the development of the Mk.4 and it’s introduction into airline service.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text 1953 – 1967″ _builder_version=”3.18.2″ text_font=”|500|||||||” text_text_color=”#21236b” text_font_size=”24px” text_font_size_phone=”28px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” text_line_height=”1.8em” background_layout=”dark” custom_margin=”|||” text_text_shadow_style=”preset1″ header_text_align=”left” text_orientation=”center”]<\/p>\n
\nThe logs cover 1953 to 1967<\/p>\n
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DH 106 and all it’s variants<\/h4>\n
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Comets Mk.1s, 2s and 3s<\/h4>\n
In this section we look at the early years of the Comet<\/p>\n
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\nLooking at Design and it’s first flight<\/p>\n
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\nDevelopment and entering service.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Comet 2 was the next logical development of the Comet 1 but never saw airline service. This section cover specification, variants and it’s fate<\/p>\n
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\nComet Mk.2s were operated by the RAF – mostly in Transport Command but also in various modified forms.<\/p>\n
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\nWhen it was decide that the Comet 2 would not enter airline service a much bigger Comet was designed. The Comet 3 became a test bed for development of the Comet 4 and 4B<\/p>\n
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\nA series of tragic accidents grounded the Comet 1 – as aircraft manufacturers discovered the concept of metal fatigue.<\/p>\n
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\nA Court of Inquiry was set up to determine why a number of Comet Mk.1s crashed.<\/p>\n
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\nBOAC became the main and as it happened only operators of the Comet 1<\/p>\n
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Comets Mk.4, 4B, 4C and C4<\/h4>\n
In this section we look at the Comet 4 and it’s derivatives<\/p>\n
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\nComet 4 developments up to the Certificate of Airworthiness – including Air-conditioning, certification and demonstration flights<\/p>\n
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\nCruise-climb, Stall Characteristics and endurance records<\/p>\n
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\nThe proposed 4A, developing the 4B and the 4C<\/p>\n
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\nFrom maiden flight, crossing the pond, services expand, advertising, incidents and the end of the line<\/p>\n
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\nCrew Training, maiden flight, pilot selection, route proving, slush issues, Olympic Airways, Air Race and pay dispute<\/p>\n
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\nServices, Utilization, Simulator, Grounded, Services Expand, Accidents, Air Tours and Peter McKeown<\/p>\n
[\/et_pb_toggle][et_pb_toggle admin_label=”Toggle C.4 RAF” title=”C.4 RAF” open_toggle_background_color=”#ffffff” closed_toggle_background_color=”#ffffff” _builder_version=”3.17.2″ title_font=”|700|||||||” title_font_size=”14px” title_line_height=”1.4em” body_line_height=”2em” border_width_all=”0px” border_width_bottom=”2px” custom_margin=”||0px|” custom_padding=”|0px||0px||true” link_option_url=”https:\/\/cometra.uk\/?page_id=19802#c4″ link_option_url_new_window=”on”]<\/p>\n
\nFive C4s were supplied to RAF Transport Command – Airframe numbers 6467 [XR395], 6468 [XR396], 6469 [XR397], 6470 [XR398] & 6471 [XR399]<\/p>\n
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\nIn 1956 the Soviet Union was planning a prestigious Air Show. An official invitation was extended by the Soviet leader \u2013 Nikita Kruschov \u2013 via their head of Aviation (Bulganin), to the British Secretary of State for Air, Nigel Birch, to visit Moscow that June to see the Soviet Air Show at Tushino airfield, Moscow.
This is an account of that visit ….<\/p>\n
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\nIn 1909 Lord Northcliffe offered a prize to the first aviator to fly across the English Channel.Fifty years later, in July 1959, the Daily Mail newspaper sponsored a celebratory Air Race as a tribute to Louis Bl\u00e9riot and offered a prize of \u00a310,000.
BEA entered a team known as the BEAline syndicate – see how they got on…<\/p>\n
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\nAircraft, particularly new types of aircraft, have to undergo a thorough testing and evaluation procedure before entering service The trials of G-AOVU are typical of that process.
Here we have logs from the first flight on 31st Oct 1959 up until 9th Aug 1962 with a scheduled flight from Mexico Cioty to LA.<\/p>\n
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