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Random fixation time!

Aircraft history has always been a hidden fixation for me. The recent Boeing shit had me looking back at what planes once were only to find shit like this has been going on since the fucking beginning!

So set the scene, it's the 50s and you need to fly from the UK to New York. Your choices are the Boeing Stratocruiser and others like it, uncomfortable, loud as balls prop planes that have seen a couple high profile crashes and others like it e.g. the Lockheed Constellation. All old transport planes from WW2 with few comforts

When out of the blue this absolute beauty arrives at the airport.

The de Havilland Comet

First ever jet airliner, gorgeous plane that compared to the above may as well be silent in flight. This was the UKs answer to how to stay alive in US dominated aerospace industry.

And it still sucked. It was so lightly built (to get airborne as the turbojets had as much thrust as a ferrets fart) that 2 fell apart in the air due to pressure cycle stress around the windows and hatches. They weren't as square as people think it was just shoddily built.

By the time it was fixed Boeing had the 707 and Mcdonnel Douglas the DC-8 so the UK was utterly out sold by those corporate giants (now one company so more a corporate hydra).

So aircraft manufacturers have been at it since day one. It also hurts as a reminder that the UK once actually had industry, this isn't a "life was better back when we had fucking coal pits and stiff upper lips post" it wasn't. Just a cry for what could have been. The 50s and 60s were a time of incredible innovation in aircraft and now everything's the same or falling to shit.

Also I want to live in the time line where flying boats were still viable