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...Havilland Aircraft Co., builders of the Comets, could not have been happy to hear the results of the inquiry, which placed the blame for the crashes on faulty design and manufacturing methods. But Britain's aircraft industry might well be proud of the inquiry's utter frankness. Its designers are already using the Farnborough testing methods to make sure that such disasters will not happen again...
COMET CRASH mystery has finally been solved by British scientists, though Planemaker De Havilland will not announce the findings until the inquiry is formally completed next month. Rumored cause: the intense pressures of high-speed, high-altitude flight caused the metal in the fuselage to "fatigue" and the planes split open in midair, killing...
...reasonable facsimile of confusion. From the control booth, Director Seymour Kulik barked commands to his headset-wearing assistants as the actors, electricians and cameramen annoyingly muffed their cues. The play was To Each His Own, adapted from the 1946 movie that won an Oscar for Olivia de Havilland. Now, cut from two hours to 46 minutes, it starred Dorothy McGuire on NBC's Lux Video Theater-the first of a series of adaptations of top movies with top movie stars...
BOAC is buying eight used Boeing Stratocruisers and seven used Lockheed Constellations to replace its grounded fleet of De Havilland Comets. Newest clue to the cause of the Comet's trouble: pressure tests on a Comet fuselage reportedly caused it to split along one side, indicating that it will have to be strengthened to stand flights...
...competing U.S. planemakers, De Havilland's decision means that the worst of the pressure was off in the race for the transport market. Boeing will put the first U.S. transport model, its four-jet 707, in the air next month, is pushing work ahead of schedule, and Douglas also has a plane past the blueprint stage. Said a De Havilland executive: "We know we're in a crisis. Even if the cause of the crashes were found tomorrow, we would have lost between four and six months . . . But until it is, we won't go back...