A similar navigation station oriented to the lateral part was located in the port.
The Comet DH.106 used four energy sources: the 5,000 ghost engines of pounds of thrust, a hydraulic system, an electrical system (which was fed by four generators driven by the engine) and two batteries.
The cabin controls, which lead to hydraulic servo tabs, operated vertical and vertical and horizontal tail surfaces, activating their screw shots to start deviation from the device. The main hydraulic system, which works with number two and four engines, fed the air brakes, ailerons, rear edge fins, horizontal stabilizers, helm, the filming train and wheel brakes. The flight engineer operated an emergency system, fed by an electric pump and using the secondary system pumps. Alternatively, the landing train could be handled by hand in the extended position.
Other cabin instruments and systems include EKOO’s weather radar, high frequency radio controls, an automatic management search engine (ADF) of very high frequency (VHF), distance measurement equipment of the distance from the Murphy distance (DME), a system Instrument landing (ILS) with very high directional directional direction A public addresses system.
The passenger cabin, covered in isolation that suppresses the sound to minimize the internal penetration of the shout of the ghost engines, was standard with 36 first class seats of four ab -American in a disposal of two two with a central corridor and was subdivided into sections of advance and stern. . A galley of two units adjacent to the direct service door was installed, while two bathrooms and a garment storage closet were installed in the stern lobby.
The pressurization and air conditioning were provided by air of the engine compressor and a control valve.
The luggage, the load and the mail were taken in a single compartment of the main cover, located immediately behind the flight cover, and two acute lower floor, lit and pressurized.
Designated DH.106 Comet 1 In its initial production version, the plane had a payload and gross weights of 12,500 and 105,000 pounds, respectively, achieving a range of 1,500 miles of 1,500 statutes with 36 passengers and fuel reserves. The cruise speed varied between 450 and 465 mph at altitudes of 28,000 to 40,000 feet.
IN SERVICE
In the middle of the early emotion, the fanfare and the ceremony, the comet DH.106 1 scheduled to operate the world’s first commercial aircraft and wrapped in the white and dark blue book of Boac, it was approached through its door of Azafa, on May 2, 1952, its history, its history -the creation and marking of the clients received in the cabin by the designated hostesses in their crispy and equally blue uniforms.
Piloted by Captain Mike Mojendie, the first officer J. G. Woodmill, flight engineer Wally Bennett and Radio Bob Chandler officer, and served by the butler Edward Charlewood and the Joan Nourse Housing, comet 1 scheduled for the inaugural transport service for transport service of passengers, g-rayp registered, taxied of the excited crowd with the help of its four ghost engines and holders of acute, positioning itself on the threshold of the track and unleashing itself, as a stallion that was eliminated from the initial door, With a thunderous roar. Accelerating quickly, turned and disconnected at 15:12, sinking to the sky and, in the process, leading their passengers at the age of the plane.
Touching in Rome, Beirut, Jardum, Enterbbe and Livingston, and changing the crews in the second and third of these intermediate airports, landed three minutes before in Johannesburg, his destination, after a record flight of 23.5 hours, despite 30- Minute fuel refueling delay and the need to circle twice before receiving free space.
When rolling to his parking position, he was flooded with multitude of enthusiasts to wait for people.
Boac placed the plane in service on a second route in this case, from London to Colombo-on July 11, which required 16.35 hours to cover the distance of 6,000 miles with intermediate stops in Rome, Beirut, Bahrein, Karachi and Bombay. A third that extended 7,761 miles, connected London with Bangkok and required a flight time of 20.15 hours, along with additional seven hours, to complete, with fuel replenishment stops in Rome, Cairo, Bahrain, Karachi, Calcuta and Rangeon . He later extended to Tokyo.
