Learning on ScreenComet across the sky
Series
- Series Name
- Oil Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 3
- Summary
- Film User Summary - the developent of the world’s first jet airliner, the D. H. "Comet"
BP synopsis: How the first all-jet air lines got off to a 500 m.p.h. start. September 1946 the design and construction of the Comet aircraft began at De Haviland in Hatfield. (Shots of the Comet production line including the body and electronics). Research into jet aircraft at the company began with the DH108 being tested and tried. The turbine engines were also heavily tested as well as weather tested. Although it is a sleek design it is still very traditional so no new runways need to be developed. The next day the ‘plane did a take off hop. That evening Don Cunningham the test pilot took the ‘plane for its first flight. (We see shots of it taking off and flying). - Keywords
- Aircraft; Industry and manufacture
- Written sources
- Film User Vol.4 No.44 June 1950, p358.
BP Video Library Tape details. Used for Synopsis
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
- Production Co.
- Greenpark Productions Ltd.
- Producer
- Humphrey Swingler
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