Kev wrote:
Stubby wrote:

Way back, I believe the first jet passenger jet was the Lockheed
Electra. The plane mysteriously fell out of the air and very thorough
search for a cause was instituted. In the end, again if I remember
correctly, the conclusion was that the wing spar failed from fatigue
because the wing was nutating, a slight circular motion due to
gyroscopic effects.


To jog your memory:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_L-188_Electra

Excellent article! Thanks. That Electra (maybe there are others) was
a turboprop rather than a turbojet as I had assumed.