Podcasts about havilland comet

“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.” Those were the words of today's guest, Captain Eric Moody all the way back on the 24th of June 1982 as he found himself at the helm of British Airways Flight 009, desperately trying to save the lives of the 248 passengers and 15 crew members on board. Find out all about this incredible story from the man himself as well as his life and lasting love of aviation.  KEY TAKEAWAYS Eric's fascination with aviation started in his childhood. As a teenager in the late 1950s, he learned to fly at the Hampshire Flying School and kept his pilot's licence active through self-funded flight hours After undergoing surgery to fix a deviated septum that initially disqualified him from commercial piloting, Eric was hired by British Airways in the early 1960s. Over the next two decades, he progressed through roles on various aircraft like the de Havilland Comet and Boeing 707, eventually becoming a captain on the Boeing 747. Eric Moody was the captain of British Airways Flight 9 that encountered a volcanic ash cloud from Mount Galunggung in Indonesia on June 24, 1982. All four of the Boeing 747's engines flamed out after flying through the ash cloud, leaving the plane and its 248 passengers stranded high above the Indian Ocean.  The "Jakarta Incident," earned Eric prestigious honours including a Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air. However, he expressed disappointment that the aviation industry did not utilise his expertise on volcanic hazards to improve safety protocols. Eric believes pilots should be free thinkers and decision-makers, not just procedure followers. BEST MOMENTS  ‘I told my mother at the age of three, I was going to be a pilot' ‘We set off half an hour late, and that half an hour was very significant' ‘I went up onto the flight deck, and there was the most beautiful display of St. Elmo's fire all over the windscreen' ‘We were proud possessors of the world's heaviest, largest glider'   ABOUT THE GUEST  Captain Eric Moody is a distinguished British pilot, renowned for his exceptional skill and composure during the infamous British Airways Flight 9 incident in 1982. With a background in the Royal Air Force, Moody joined British Airways in 1965. On June 24, 1982, he captained Flight 9, navigating the Boeing 747 through volcanic ash, causing a complete engine failure. Despite the harrowing circumstances, Moody's expertise and calm demeanour led to a successful emergency landing in Jakarta. His remarkable airmanship and leadership have left an indelible mark on aviation history. ABOUT THE PODCAST Welcome to Airchats with Airmacs, a series that opens doors to reveal the captivating stories of aviation professionals. Join us, your hosts from Airmacs Aviation, the air transport specialists, as we embark on a journey through the skies and into the lives of the people who keep the aviation industry soaring. We sit down with industry experts to explore their unique experiences, challenges, and insights. From navigating the complexities of air travel to the innovations shaping the future of flight. Buckle up for a behind-the-scenes look at the human side of aviation & business. Whether you're a seasoned aviation enthusiast or just curious about the world above the clouds, Airchats with Airmacs is your ticket to a diverse range of perspectives within the dynamic world of aviation. Welcome aboard! ABOUT THE HOST Introducing Sam Macadam, your seasoned host on Airchats with Airmacs. With many years in the aviation industry, Sam is not just an enthusiast but a distinguished air charter specialist, making him a go-to authority in the field. His extensive knowledge and hands-on experience in air charter set him apart, having achieved several industry firsts through innovative thinking and meticulous planning. As the founder of Airmacs Aviation, Sam brings a unique perspective to the show, emphasising not only the technical aspects of aviation but also the importance of personalised customer service and the well-being of industry associates. His commitment to excellence and passion for sharing untold stories make Airchats with Airmacs a must-listen for anyone seeking a genuine and insightful exploration of the aviation world. Join Sam as he takes you on a journey through the skies, unravelling the tales that make aviation truly remarkable. SOCIAL LINKS www.Airmacs.com https://www.instagram.com/airchatswithairmacs https://www.tiktok.com/@airchatswithairmacs

Airplane Stories and Histories by Norman CurreyAIRPLANE STORIES AND HISTORIES chronicles two hundred years of aviation highlights including the exploits of pioneers such as Sir George Cayley, the Wright brothers, Charles Lindbergh, Wiley Post, Amelia Earheart, R. J. Mitchell, Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, Allan Loughead, Frank Whittle, and Kelly Johnson. Notable events and developments are discussed, first Atlantic flights, World War airplanes, jet engine development and post-war designs. It concludes with a discussion of new designs..NORMAN CURREY was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1926. He graduated as an aeronautical engineer in 1948 and was astress engineer on the de Havilland Comet. He went to Canada and helped design the Jetliner and Arrow. He spent 30 years at Lockheed, working in the C-130 JetStar, C-5 and special projects. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Roya Aeronautical Society, and has lectured in the U.S. and abroad. He is also the author of Aircraft Landing Gear Design: Principles and Practices, AIAA1988https://www.amazon.com/Airplane-Stories-Histories-Norman-Currey/dp/1998784142/ref=monarch_sidesheethttps://www.booksidepress.com/http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/3923bsp1.mp3   

On May 2, 1953 a de Havilland Comet is taking off out of Calcutta and into the clouds then comes crashing down into the ground. What caused this flight to fall out of the sky? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hard-landings-podcast/support

Richard Jones is a former VC10 pilot who recalls his path into the RAF in the 1960s, via a pleasure flight company at Manchester's Ringway Airport. Richard shares the story of his RAF career via the de Havilland Chipmunk, BAC Jet Provost, and onto transport aircraft such as the Vickers Valetta, Blackburn Beverley, de Havilland Comet and onto the Vickers VC10, his favourite aircraft. Make sure you follow us in your podcast app to make sure you do not miss out on future episodes. I'm delighted to welcome Richard Jones… The Avro Heritage Museum is located near Manchester in the UK and you can find more details at avroheritagemuseum.co.uk

Engineering News – Surfside Condominium Building Collapse in Miami Florida on June 24, 2021. (1:35) In this week's episode, I am joined by Brian, a former pilot, to talk about the de Havilland Comet (6:30). While the Comet had some wins (14:45), it also suffered significant losses. The first fatal crash occurred after take-off from Karachi, Pakistan on March 3, 1953 (19:45), followed by another crash on May 2, 1953, 6 minutes after take-off from Calcutta, India (20:35). Then in 1954, Yoke Peter crashed on Jan 10th (25:55) and Yoke Yoke crashed on April 8th (29:30), both about 20 minutes after takeoff from Rome.     Transcript / Photos / Sources from this episode - www.failurology.ca   Ways to get in touch Twitter - https://twitter.com/failurology Email - thefailurologypodcast@gmail.com Linked In - https://www.linkedin.com/company/failurology-podcast Website – www.failurology.ca YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh1Buq46PYyxKbCDGTqbsDg

A de Havilland Comet 1 (BOAC flight 781) suddenly explodes in midair on its way to London from Rome. Then a few months later another Comet 1 (South African Airways 201), on its way to Cairo from Rome, explodes in a similar fashion to the BOAC flight. Find out how windows and push rivets caused the first jet airliner to explode in flight. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hard-landings-podcast/support

In the 37th podcast from CatastropheCast.com, we delve into the troubled history of the de Havilland Comet, and how the lessons learned from those crashes led to safer airplanes today, led to a better understanding of metal fatigue, and unwittingly gave rise to de Havilland's competitor, Boeing, taking the lead in jet airliners.

In this episode we’ll look at in-air breakups of aeroplanes – caused by poor flying, poor design, or poor maintenance and bad weather. In some cases all four of these together. However as with all things aviation, every accident leads to an equal and opposite reaction .. to misquote the great Sir Isaac Newton. That reaction luckily for us, is called Aviation safety standards. The terrible truth is that people die and then safety improves. So let’s start with the 32 year-old Charles Rolls. He was one half of the great Rolls-Royce engine company but his end was rather unfortunate. Probably the most famous of all in-air break ups involved the notorious de Havilland Comet. It took three catastrophic failures all within a year before the airliner was grounded. Launched by BOAC in 1952, the Comet was the world’s first jet airliner and was an attractive plane too. Aviation buffs swooned over its swept back look, the modern jet liner was born and it could fly right across the Atlantic without a stop. However, it had a serious flaw. The windows and doors. One of the most incredible in-air failures ended with almost everyone surviving. In April 1988, part of the fuselage of an Aloha 737 flying from Hilo to Honolulu shredded at 24,000ft. A flight attendant was swept overboard – everyone else survived. Imagine sitting in the open air with nothing between them and the ocean except for a safety belt. That may be so, but it took a 1991 accident to kick start a proper global culture of aviation safety. The mid-air break up of the Continental Express Flight 2574 – an Embraer 120 Brasilia, was a scheduled domestic passenger airline flight operated by Britt Airways from Laredo International Airport in Laredo, Texas, to Houston Intercontinental Airport or IAH in Houston, Texas. A break-up of a plane over Peru deserves special mention at this point. As you’ll hear in this series, there are many examples of a single person surviving a plane crash. And this is one of them. Today we hear about the extraordinary story of Juliane Koepcke. She was 17 years old and sitting in the window seat next to her mother on board a Lansa Aircraft flight 508 from Lima in Peru to Pucallpa in the middle of the Amazon Rain Forest. There’s another I have to mention and it involved something known as Clean Air Turbulence which led to an in-air breakup of a commercial airliner. In the case of BOAC flight 911 callsign Speedbird 911, clean air turbulence produced an estimated 7.5Gs that caused the Boeing to disintegrate over Mount Fuji in Japan on 5th March 1966. Clean Air turbulence will be covered in a future podcast, but needless to say there’s no warning. All 113 passengers and 11 crew perished.

The Vickers Viscount, the de Havilland Comet, the Airspeed Ambassador and many other civil aircraft designs of the 1940s and 1950s were specified by the recommendations made by three wartime government committees; two chaired by Lord Brabazon, affectionally known as ‘Brab’ and a third by Lord Beaverbrook. Sir Peter Masefield, secretary to the Beaverbrook Committee and later Chief Executive of BEA gives us an insider view of the work of the Committees, the projects they inspired and the personalities of those who shaped the post-war civil aircraft industry. The lecture took place on 28 September 1995, the podcast was edited by Mike Stanberry FRAeS and it was digitised thanks to a grant from the Royal Aeronautical Society Foundation.

Topic: Antlerboy (aka Benjamin Taylor) continues to be plagued by substandard internet, although right in the middle of London and across the street to MI-6, yet can only get ADSL service to his office.  How can that be in 2019?  Broadcasting from home is not possible because Antlerboy is too “afraid” to tell his wife to be quiet as a mouse for an hour whilst we are recording.  Not to be undone, JP laments about his “high-tech house from hell”.  And so it goes…   Our guests are Seth  from Joisey   Seth shares his thoughts on Artificial Intelligence and sets the subject for the rest of the podcast.  He ponders the quality of the data being mined, whether people need all the information available to them – are they now being fed information for the wow factor or is all that time and effort waste?  JP goes on the offensive to challenge the use of AI in the hiring process among other applications.  But the conversation goes on to other introductions of innovation and technologies in general and on a variety of applications – and as experience guides us from the past; the knowns, the known unknowns, and the unkown unknowns.  JP shares the tragedy of “unknown unknowns” of innovation in the early days of high-altitude, long-distance flights – where square windows in the de Havilland Comet resulted in metal fatigue at the corners and caused several fatal crashes.  But this discovery lead to an understanding and that is why all windows in aircraft today have no corners.  In the podcast itself, JP erroneously stated that it was the “Lockeed Constellation”.  We regret the error and are sure it would not have happened if the hosts were AI bots and not live, and fallible, human beings.   Hosts: Joseph Paris, Founder of the OpEx Society & The XONITEK Group of Companies   Benjamin Taylor,  Managing Partner of RedQuadrant.

Captain Hugh Dibley FRAeS careers started at the dawn of the civil jet age, with the navigator using the stars as a guide. In this interview with AEROSPACE’s Tim Robinson, he describes life in the cockpit from the piston-engined airliners such as the Douglas DC7, to the de Havilland Comet, to Boeing 707 and 747 right up until Airbus FBW, as well a second career as racing driver in the swinging 60s and the clash in cultures between BEA and BOAC. Hugh Dibley was interviewed by Tim Robinson in 2019 and was edited by Mike Stanberry FRAeS.

This episode begins with Rolls-Royce’s head of aero engines, talking about the gas turbine engines of the 1950s, including the Rolls-Royce Tyne, before Raymond Baxter asks Sir George Edwards of Vickers about the turboprop generation of aircraft. The episode concludes with Gp. Capt. John Cunningham on test flying the de Havilland Comet series of aircraft. This is the fifth episode of Powered Flight, the British contribution to flying. It was a BBC Overseas Service documentary first broadcast in 1959 and was introduced by Charles Gibbs-Smith. The recording was supplied by the BBC/Getty images, was edited by Mike Stanberry FRAeS and was digitised and released thanks to a grant from the Royal Aeronautical Society Foundation and a bequest from E. H. J. Pallett.

In this episode, I'm looking at the case of the de Havilland Comet - the first commercial jet airliner. Three crashes within short succession in the 1950's hinted at a deadly flaw in the plane's design, but it would take pioneering investigative techniques to reveal it.Drawing on official reports and contemporary accounts, I'll tell the full story of what went wrong.Visit www.greatdisasters.co.uk for the full transcript and more.Check out the Great Disasters Podcast on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram - let me know what you think of the show.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/greatdisasters)

“It seems to me that....we frequently shot ourselves in the foot by making aircraft, engines or organisations either too large or too small. The right size really does matter.” In his lecture, Peter Hearne uses cases from his long career in aviation to illustrate his theme, and shows where he believed the British aviation industry went right and wrong after the Second World War. After looking at the merits of Flying Boats using his experiences working on the Saunders Roe SR 45 Princess, Hearne turns to the advantages and disadvantages of the de Havilland Comet, Vickers 1000 and Boeing 707s and their consideration by his then employer, British Overseas Airways Corporation. Hearne started the second stage of his career in 1959 when he moved to Elliott Brothers to head up one of its first groups involved in the development of electronic systems for military projects. Over the next thirty years he climbed the ranks of what became GEC Marconi and became involved with a diverse range of major projects and uses his knowledge of the BAC TSR2, SEPECAT Jaguar, Tornado and F16 to illustrate his theme. Peter Herne retired as Chairman of Marconi’s Avionics Group in 1984 and served as President of the Royal Aeronautical Society between 1980 and 1981. The Lecture was dedicated to the memory of Alan Purnell and was presented to the Royal Aeronautical Society’s Historical Group on 28 April 2004. The podcast was edited by Mike Stanberry FRAeS and it was digitised thanks to a grant from the Royal Aeronautical Society Foundation.

In July 1949, the British-built de Havilland Comet took off for the first time to become the world's first jet-propelled passenger plane. But a flaw in its construction would end up costing lives and leaving crash investigators baffled. Mike Ramsden was an apprentice aeronautical engineer who worked on the jetliner. (Photo: Mike Ramsden (right) in 1955 with a second generation Comet at the de Havilland airfield at Hatfield, England)