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To: CedarDave

—and , IIRC, a passenger was blown out of a British Comet in the early days of jet passenger aircraft-—


10 posted on 04/19/2018 11:23:10 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: rellimpank
...British Comet...

Yeah, I think that's when engineers figured out that maybe airplanes shouldn't have right-angle openings and stress points, but rather round/oval ones like the ones designed for ships and subs.

18 posted on 04/19/2018 12:16:10 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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