Re: aviation (aircraft) freaks, gather here!
@post30 Jets and jet engines have been around long before the 707 rolled off the production line. In fact the hole idea of the jet engine goes as far back as the 1930's with frank widdle, and some guy in jerminy I believe it was in the 1940's during world war 2. However, jet engines were seen as too unreliable and fuel hungry for airliner usage, until the comet came around. Unfortunitly, while the comet itself was a really nice airplane, indeed i've flown the comet1 on fsx a cupple times, its rather bad safety record, involving metal fatigue problems that caused 2 acksadents, partly caused airlines to generally shy away from the hole jet idea. Not to mention the dc7 and vikers vicount, both turboprops were proving to be just as effective at transporting passengers as pistin airplanes, while at the same time being less noisy than pistins. That is, until the 707 came around, that and the dc8. Dougless already had an impressive reputation with some dc3's still fly ing today. I can't exactly remember all of the factors that made airlines switch, but i'm sure Pan AM had something to do with it, they were giant supporters of boeing. That and everyone was going to the jetliner. You had the americans with the 707 and dc 8, britin with the comet4, french with the caravell, and the soviets with the TU 104. As for airships, god knows the zepolins were amazing if incredibly slow. Its well known that healium isn't flamible like hydragin is, although it provides a bit less lift. The U S had 3 zepolins at one point, 2 were lost in bad weather. Still, it would be cool to see the zepolins return to the skys again.
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