[Siwi]

I will admit to having watched Mentour Pilot's recent-ish video on the Comet - have a hazy memory of a BBC documentary from about 2000 which did little to dispell the 'window' misconception. Another interesting point of note is how many UK-published books from the last quarter of the 20th century tend to brush off the crashes as an unfortunate side note then overstate the technical and historical importance of this aircraft beyond simply being the first jet airliner. It's almost like some kind of denial complex as the British aviation industry was at that time imploding and being absorbed into a multinational European company.