Hello all,I was just wondering what was the first mass produced Jet airliner to really signal the end of the Props in front line service. I know that the Comet was first in the UK and having structual problems it had a very fatal start,
But what aircraft really made the leap and became the first true Jet flying.
I have always loved the Lockheed L-049 (Connie)In my opinion it was and still is one of the worlds most beautiful aircraft and I was setting here thinking what could of been beter than flying the Connie so it must of been an impressive airplane I just can't think of what it was!

structual problems

Square windows in a pressurized aircraft a no no  

The corner is the weakest spot, 4 corners per window, etc...

FCAIR wrote on Nov 30^th, 2008 at 12:44pm:


According to Wikipedia:
"The first purpose-built jet airliner was the de Havilland Comet which first flew in 1949 and entered service in 1952. Also developed in 1949 was the Avro Jetliner, and although it never reached production, the term jetliner caught on as a generic term for all passenger jet aircraft.

These first jet airliners were followed some years later by the Sud Aviation Caravelle, Tupolev Tu-104 (2nd in service), Boeing 707, Douglas DC-8, and Convair 880."

Lawrence

Hagar wrote on Nov 30^th, 2008 at 1:48pm:


Yes, but most boiler engineers had learnt the trade from the family business or as an apprentice, whereas aircraft designers had spent three years studying the stuff at university............ever tried to tell a university educated person how something is done

Matt

So it was the Comet,and if they had hired a buch of laid off rail workers from the boilermaker shop the window problem might not of been at all. The Comet from DM flight sims does it work in FSX. I spent alot of time in FS9 flying the BAC 1-11 awesome aircraft of DM flight sims. Thanks for all the replies.