Research and Testing

Abstract

Equipment, Programmes, Techniques and Projects. The main fuselage and wing assembly of the de Havilland Trident jet airliner has successfully completed a programme of 40,000 ‘flights’ in the large water tank at Hatfield. The rear fuselage with fin, the tailplane, and the nose portion—including the flight‐deck canopy—had already completed a similar programme of 40,000 flights. All the main structural components of the Trident have passed this stringent test without any evidence of fatigue.

Citation

(1963), "Research and Testing", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 35 No. 8, pp. 246-246. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb033778