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February 3rd 13, 11:51 PM
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Is the 787 a failure ?
"george152" wrote in message ... On 03/02/13 16:05, Spehro Pefhany wrote: On Sat, 02 Feb 2013 16:48:44 -0800, the renowned Gunner wrote: Im trying to remember which prop job in the 1950s kept going down...British aircraft IRRC....which had the tails snapping off...some sort of metal fatigue/harmonics issue which took them awhile to find and correct. They did a movie about it in the 1960s IRRC Turbojet, but maybe this one? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Comet They didn't understand metal fatigue very well in those days- nice big square windows in the early models. The same aircraft type flew for many years after that in a marine defence anti submarine role It doesn't need to be pressurized at 200'. 
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