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Aviation History
1952
1952 - 1223.PDF
2 May 1952 535 FASTER, FARTHER, FAIRER- COMET II IN flight or at rest, the Comet is a thing of beauty; and that it will prove a joy—if not, as Keats averred, for ever, then for a period of many years—is the reasoned belief not only of its constructors but of an increasing number of operators. In these new Flight studies of the Series II version, with Rolls-Royce Avons, the character of the machine is revealed to unprecedented advantage. Of 45 or more Comets bespoken by the Ministry of Supply, B.O.A.C., Canadian Pacific Airlines, Union Aeromaritime de Transport, Air France, the Royal Canadian Air Force, and British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines, 24 are Series lis. Externally there is little to distinguish the new type from its Ghost-powered predecessor, though it will be observed that the air intakes are larger and of different shape, and that the tail-pipes (the inner is toed-out) of the Avons are not so widely separated as were those of the Ghosts.
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