{"id":1530887,"date":"2026-06-04T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/?p=1530887"},"modified":"2026-06-10T15:41:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T13:41:18","slug":"de-havilland-comet-first-jet-airliner-metal-fatigue-square-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/de-havilland-comet-first-jet-airliner-metal-fatigue-square-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"De Havilland Comet: First, Beautiful, Deadly"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n\nThe de Havilland Comet was beautiful. Sleek, four-engined, impossibly quiet compared to the propliners it replaced. On 2 May 1952, BOAC Flight 001 departed London for Johannesburg \u2014 the world&#8217;s first scheduled jet airline service. Passengers sipped champagne at 40,000 feet while propeller aircraft laboured at half that altitude below them. The future had arrived.\n\nTwo years later, two Comets broke apart in mid-air within three months of each other. The investigation that followed discovered metal fatigue \u2014 a phenomenon no aircraft designer had properly accounted for \u2014 and it changed every airliner built since.\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:18px 22px;margin:20px 0 28px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\">\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;color:#333;font-size:17px\">Quick Facts &mdash; de Havilland Comet<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>First flight:<\/strong> 27 July 1949<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>First commercial service:<\/strong> 2 May 1952 (BOAC, London&ndash;Johannesburg)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>Fatal crashes:<\/strong> BOAC Flight 781 (10 Jan 1954, 35 killed) and SAA Flight 201 (8 Apr 1954, 21 killed)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>Cause:<\/strong> Metal fatigue at stress concentrations around square window corners<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0;font-size:15px\"><strong>Legacy:<\/strong> Rounded windows on every airliner built since; mandatory fatigue testing<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Two Crashes, One Mystery<\/h2>\n\nOn 10 January 1954, BOAC Flight 781 \u2014 Comet G-ALYP, named &#8220;Yoke Peter&#8221; \u2014 broke apart at 27,000 feet near the island of Elba in the Mediterranean. All 35 aboard died. Three months later, on 8 April, South African Airways Flight 201 \u2014 a BOAC Comet on charter, G-ALYY \u2014 disintegrated over the sea near Stromboli, south of Naples. All 21 aboard died. Both aircraft had simply come apart in the sky.\n\nThe Comet fleet was grounded. The Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough launched the most exhaustive aircraft investigation in history.\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Water Tank<\/h2>\n\nSir Arnold Hall&#8217;s team at Farnborough devised a test that had never been attempted: they submerged a complete Comet fuselage \u2014 G-ALYU, &#8220;Yoke Uncle&#8221; \u2014 in a water tank and pressurised it repeatedly to simulate the stresses of climbing to cruising altitude and descending again. Each pressurisation cycle simulated one flight.\n\nAfter 3,057 total cycles (1,221 actual flights plus 1,836 simulated), the fuselage burst open. The crack started at a rivet hole near the corner of a square window. The sharp 90-degree corners of the Comet&#8217;s windows created stress concentrations far higher than de Havilland&#8217;s engineers had predicted. Every pressurisation cycle widened microscopic cracks at these corners until the fuselage could no longer hold together.\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;The failure was a result of metal fatigue caused by the repeated pressurisation and de-pressurisation of the aircraft cabin.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Sir Arnold Hall<\/strong> &mdash; Director, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Round Windows Forever<\/h2>\n\nThe fix was straightforward: round the windows. Oval or circular window cutouts distribute stress evenly instead of concentrating it at corners. Every commercial airliner built since the Comet \u2014 every Boeing, every Airbus, every Embraer, every Bombardier \u2014 has round or oval windows. Look out the window on your next flight: the shape exists because of two Comets that fell into the Mediterranean in 1954.\n\nThe Comet programme recovered. The redesigned Comet 4 entered service in 1958 with oval windows, thicker skin, and proper fatigue testing. But the delay had been fatal to de Havilland&#8217;s commercial ambitions: the Boeing 707, which benefited enormously from the Comet&#8217;s lessons, entered service that same year and swept the market.\n\nThe Comet was beautiful. It was first. And it taught the world a lesson written in aluminium and blood: metal gets tired, and corners kill.\n\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YVvKk-rGJME\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n<em>Sources: Royal Aircraft Establishment Court of Inquiry, FAA Lessons Learned, de Havilland Aircraft Museum, Air &#038; Space Quarterly<\/em>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The de Havilland Comet was beautiful. Sleek, four-engined, impossibly quiet compared to the propliners it replaced. On 2 May 1952, BOAC Flight 001 departed London for Johannesburg \u2014 the world&#8217;s first scheduled jet airline service. Passengers sipped champagne at 40,000 feet while propeller aircraft laboured at half that altitude below them. 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