AVIATION MATTERS
Sir,-Your issue of April 30 had some misleading statements on aircraft matters. The claim that the first retractable undercarriage appeared on the Airspeed Courier is quite incorrect. If you glance at a 1930 copy of Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft you will find therein a photo of the Boeing. Monomail production transport with retractable undercarriage. At this time the Airspeed company was not even founded. Also, in writing on the Comet, where did your correspondent get the idea that turbine failures have never been known to occur? Blades have flown .out of turbo jets hundreds of times and done plenty of damage in
doing so.
FACTS
(Belfast).
(The Airspeed Courier was the first British commercial plane to use a retractable undercarriage. And although there have been turbine failures, they are not known to have happened with the Ghost engine of the Comet discussed in the article.-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 776, 4 June 1954, Page 5
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148AVIATION MATTERS New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 776, 4 June 1954, Page 5
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