On Dec 8, 9:46*am, "Chris.B" wrote:
On Dec 8, 12:07*pm, whensenseless mumbled incoherently:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Comet

The world owes a great debt to De Havilland for discovering metal
fatigue in aircraft.

Do you think their engineers saw the movie called "No Highway in the
Sky" ?

http://www.aetherczar.com/?p=1312

The Americans wanted to be first (as usual) but
they were still flying biplane stringbags at the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_X-1

Looks like a monoplane to me.