In a message dated 7/16/2003 7:04:22 AM Pacific Daylight Time, gfoley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: << Comet, if you call that entering the jet age. One always wonders if DeHavilland didn't have the disaster first, would someone else have had it instead. It was a hard way to find out about pressurization and its problems, but it sure was effective. >> Most planes of the time had square windows. It is quite possible that someone would have put squares in if DH had not been first.