Meanwhile, Reindeer planes should be limited to 720 flight hours – half the time to Mr. But given photos from the crash site, which prove nothing, the group decides someone should go back to the site in Quebec, and bring back additional samples. Honey over the years, and are not impressed by his work or his vague personality. Most of them have had experience with Mr.

Prendergast, designer of the plane, and the heads of several government bureaus. He confers with his boss, the Director of the RAE, who calls a meeting of all those concerned – BOAC, the British Ministry of Finance, the CEO of Rutland Aircraft, E. Examiners of the wreckage concluded the cause was pilot error.īut Scott is not so sure. The British Overseas Airways Corporation has been operating twelve of these new planes for several months, each totaling about 400 hours airtime so far, but another has crashed in Quebec wilderness with loss of life of all on board. He has pages of math which he claims demonstrate that the tail assembly will fail after about 1440 hours of flight. Honey has rigged a machine to reproduce the forces on the tail assembly in flight, and it is running noisily, eight hours a day. Honey shows him the whole tail section of a Rutland Reindeer, pride of Britain’s Transatlantic Service to New York and Ottawa. “What’s the basis for this theory?” Scott asks.

Honey believes it is transmitted to the nucleus of the aluminum atoms, finally causing a change in structure to a weaker crystalline form which fractures. Scott how constant minor flexing motion builds up measurable energy in an airplane’s wings or tail, but a tiny portion of the energy is unaccounted for. For years he has been studying metal fatigue as a cause of airplane crashes. A researcher still measuring stress buildup on wing struts, for example, when no one builds planes having wing struts any more, needs reassignment. Dennis Scott is the newly appointed manager of the Structural Department at Britain’s Royal Aircraft Establishment, charged with sorting those doing practical research from those just hanging on until retirement.

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