【飛行機のイロハ115】世界初のジェット旅客機、デ・ハビランド コメット

The de Havilland Comet, the world's first jetliner The square-shaped windows of this aircraft caused stress to concentrate at the corners, resulting in a series of accidents that resulted in the aircraft breaking apart in mid-flight. It's said that subsequent passenger aircraft windows were designed with rounded corners or oval windows. This is a fairly well-known story among aviation enthusiasts, but "That story is wrong." Today, we'll be introducing the de Havilland Comet. ■This episode includes: 0:00 Introduction 1:26 Opening 1:37 What the de Havilland Comet was like 4:11 Repeated major accidents 7:20 What did the experiments reveal? 10:30 What was learned from salvaged items 12:21 What happened to the de Havilland Comet? 15:10 Why did the Comet cause rounded window corners? If anyone with more knowledge has any additional comments or if you spot any errors, please leave a comment. If you like, please subscribe to the channel. http://bit.do/fbQwf ■References ・Wikipedia ・Wikipedia (EN) ・CIVIL AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT Report of the Court of Inquiry into the Accidents to Comet G-ALYP on January 10, 1954 and Comet G-ALYY on April 1954 and others ■License information for thumbnail images Aeromaritime_Comet_Groves.jpg: Clinton Groves derivative work: Altair78 (GFDL 1.2 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licen... or GFDL 1.2 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licen..., via Wikimedia Commons ken H from Yokohama, Kanagawa-ken, Japan, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons ■BGM DOVA-SYONDROME Tokyo_Dungeon BY shimtone DOVA-SYONDROME Autumn_Step BY Make a field Music DOVA-SYONDROME LIKE_A_MOVIE BY SAKURA BEATZ.JP DOVA-SYONDROME Mercury_Fiction BY shimtone #deHavillandComet #BOAC #Airplane