Interesting Britain really stepped on the turd pie when they didn't figure out the square windows on the first commercial jet the Comet was causing them to drop out of the sky due to stress cracks and so forth. At that time in the early to mid 50's they had the lead over everyone including Boeing. It was a sweet looking plane.
Vintage Promo of the plane flying and so forth - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xypEPhX_dzU

