RE: MGB vs. Spitfire

["Ackley, Aaron T" <ackleya@hq.7arcom.army.mil>]

        I thought it was the windows....  ie one of the "selling points"
of that plane was the "picture window" arrangement,  and it was  these
that failed, due to a large glass surface area and poor sealing

        aaron

                -----Original Message-----
                From:   msecres@ibm.net [SMTP:msecres@ibm.net]
                Sent:   Sunday, March 08, 1998 7:14 PM
                To:     fred thomas
                Cc:     triumphs@autox.team.net
                Subject:        Re: MGB vs. Spitfire


                fred thomas wrote: 

                > 
                > Gentlemen, don't forget the Brits, were first out with
commercial jets
                > also, they just forgot to pressurize them and then
poof away they blew.

                Actually, Fred, what they forgot to do (with the de
Havilland "Comet")
                was build resiliance into the fuselage.  The stress of
pressurization
                cycles caused the body metal to fatigue ... and then
they blew.

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                MS