For Comet fans

[Snidely]

No, not the reindeer, nor even observing iceballs, but an aircraft that
deserves the love despite its flaws:

<URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DjnG74DDno>

See also
<URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nV9udxkkxw>
and
<URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExfBJDaZwOY>
<URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbUuB1aN2DA>
<URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Comet>
<URL:https://xkcd.com/2764/>
<URL:https://www.baesystems.com/en-media/webImageWebp/20210402120452/1434578120689.webp
>
<URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvrPnsgmNbQ>
<URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn7ImsFM13k

Enjoy!

/dps

--
As a colleague once told me about an incoming manager,
"He does very well in a suck-up, kick-down culture."
Bill in Vancouver

[Snidely]

After serious thinking Snidely wrote :

> No, not the reindeer, nor even observing iceballs, but an aircraft that
> deserves the love despite its flaws:
>
> <URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DjnG74DDno>
>
> See also
> <URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nV9udxkkxw>
> and
> <URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExfBJDaZwOY>
> <URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbUuB1aN2DA>
> <URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Comet>
> <URL:https://xkcd.com/2764/>
> <URL:https://www.baesystems.com/en-media/webImageWebp/20210402120452/1434578120689.webp
>>
> <URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvrPnsgmNbQ>
> <URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn7ImsFM13k

<URL:https://www.baesystems.com/en/heritage/de-havilland-comet-3---4>
> Enjoy!
>
> /dps

and me

--
"First thing in the morning, before I have coffee, I read the obits, If
I'm not in it, I'll have breakfast." -- Carl Reiner, to CBS News in
2015.

[Michael Trew]

On 5/15/2023 21:08, Snidely wrote:
> No, not the reindeer, nor even observing iceballs, but an aircraft that
> deserves the love despite its flaws:
>
> <URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DjnG74DDno>

Ah, I was thinking of the powdered "Comet" in a can to whiten the
porcelain in my kitchen sink ;)

[Snidely]

Michael Trew submitted this gripping article, maybe on Friday:

The "can" was a cardboard tube with metal ends until it was replaced
with plastic. The other Comet was an aluminum tube with things
sticking out to the sides.

/dps

--
But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason
to 'be happy.'"
Viktor Frankl

[Les Albert]

On Fri, 02 Jun 2023 19:51:15 -0700, Snidely <snide...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Michael Trew submitted this gripping article, maybe on Friday:
>> On 5/15/2023 21:08, Snidely wrote:
>>> No, not the reindeer, nor even observing iceballs, but an aircraft that
>>> deserves the love despite its flaws:
>>> <URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DjnG74DDno>

>> Ah, I was thinking of the powdered "Comet" in a can to whiten the porcelain
>> in my kitchen sink ;)

>The "can" was a cardboard tube with metal ends until it was replaced
>with plastic. The other Comet was an aluminum tube with things
>sticking out to the sides.

This has turned into a funny subject; reindeer, scouring powder. I
didn't go to any of the urls you previously posted so I don't know if
the movie related to the Comet was one of them. It's a British film
that's kind of corny, but it was made in 1950 and special effects were
not that great then. You can watch it on youtube at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UH2ZW7Elmw

The plane shown in the movie is not the Comet and it looks peculiar,
but the story has to do with the metal failure of Comet 1.

Les

[Mark Brader]

Les Albert:

> This has turned into a funny subject; reindeer, scouring powder. I
> didn't go to any of the urls you previously posted so I don't know if
> the movie related to the Comet was one of them. It's a British film

> that's kind of corny, but it was made in 1950...

You must be talking about "No Highway in the Sky".

> The plane shown in the movie is not the Comet and it looks peculiar,
> but the story has to do with the metal failure of Comet 1.

The movie was not based on the Comet 1 disasters -- it *anticipated*
them, being released three years before they happened. And the novel
it was based on (just "No Highway") came out three years before that.
(By the way, Nevil Shute, its author, was a real-life airplane designer.)

In the movie, the plane's unexpectedly short operating life is due
to a fictional *nuclear reaction* in the metal, not to conventional
metal fatigue as in the real-life disasters. I don't know if this
detail is the same in the novel.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | A driver I know is getting uncomfortably close to
m...@vex.net | earning the nickname "Crash". --Lee Ayrton

My text in this article is in the public domain.

[Boron Elgar]

On Sat, 03 Jun 2023 21:12:40 +0000, m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote:

>Les Albert:
>> This has turned into a funny subject; reindeer, scouring powder. I
>> didn't go to any of the urls you previously posted so I don't know if
>> the movie related to the Comet was one of them. It's a British film
>> that's kind of corny, but it was made in 1950...
>
>You must be talking about "No Highway in the Sky".
>
>> The plane shown in the movie is not the Comet and it looks peculiar,
>> but the story has to do with the metal failure of Comet 1.
>
>The movie was not based on the Comet 1 disasters -- it *anticipated*
>them, being released three years before they happened. And the novel
>it was based on (just "No Highway") came out three years before that.
>(By the way, Nevil Shute, its author, was a real-life airplane designer.)

"On the Beach."

[Les Albert]

On Sat, 03 Jun 2023 21:12:40 +0000, m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote:

>Les Albert:
>> This has turned into a funny subject; reindeer, scouring powder. I
>> didn't go to any of the urls you previously posted so I don't know if
>> >> the movie related to the Comet was one of them. It's a British film
>> that's kind of corny, but it was made in 1950...

>You must be talking about "No Highway in the Sky".

Yes, that's the movie, and you are correct that the film anticipated
the Comet 1 failures. The plane in the movie that I referred to as
peculiar is a De Havilland FB Mk I "Venom", first flown in 1949.

>In the movie, the plane's unexpectedly short operating life is due
>to a fictional *nuclear reaction* in the metal, not to conventional
>metal fatigue as in the real-life disasters. I don't know if this
>detail is the same in the novel.

I never read Shute's book but back in the 1950s "nuclear" and
"atomic"anything was a fascinating and mystical subject to the general
public, so it wouldn't have been unusual for Shute to attribute metal
failure to a nuclear reaction.

Les

[Mark Brader]

Mark Brader:
>> You must be talking about "No Highway in the Sky"... the novel
>> it was based on (just "No Highway")...

>> (By the way, Nevil Shute, its author, was a real-life airplane designer.)

Boron Elgar:
> "On the Beach."

That's a *different* novel by Nevil Shute (also with a movie version).
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "Do people confuse me with Mark Brader?"
m...@vex.net --Mark Barratt

[Boron Elgar]

On Sun, 04 Jun 2023 03:21:38 +0000, m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote:

>Mark Brader:
>>> You must be talking about "No Highway in the Sky"... the novel
>>> it was based on (just "No Highway")...
>>> (By the way, Nevil Shute, its author, was a real-life airplane designer.)
>
>Boron Elgar:
>> "On the Beach."
>
>That's a *different* novel by Nevil Shute (also with a movie version).

VERY different. When I read it, I was quite young and considered it
horror.

[Michael Trew]

On 6/2/2023 22:51, Snidely wrote:
> Michael Trew submitted this gripping article, maybe on Friday:
>> On 5/15/2023 21:08, Snidely wrote:
>>> No, not the reindeer, nor even observing iceballs, but an aircraft that
>>> deserves the love despite its flaws:
>>>
>>> <URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DjnG74DDno>
>>
>> Ah, I was thinking of the powdered "Comet" in a can to whiten the
>> porcelain in my kitchen sink ;)
>
> The "can" was a cardboard tube with metal ends until it was replaced
> with plastic. The other Comet was an aluminum tube with things sticking
> out to the sides.
>
> /dps

Yes, cardboard with metal ends. I didn't know they sold it in plastic;
the one under my sink is cardboard/metal, just like frozen orange juice
concentrate.

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