From: boron_elgar@hotmail.com   
      
   On Sat, 03 Jun 2023 21:12:40 +0000, msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote:   
      
   >Les Albert:   
   >> This has turned into a funny subject; reindeer, scouring powder.  I   
   >> didn't go to any of the urls you previously posted so I don't know if   
   >> the movie related to the Comet was one of them.  It's a British film   
   >> that's kind of corny, but it was made in 1950...   
   >   
   >You must be talking about "No Highway in the Sky".   
   >   
   >> The plane shown in the movie is not the Comet and it looks peculiar,   
   >> but the story has to do with the metal failure of Comet 1.   
   >   
   >The movie was not based on the Comet 1 disasters -- it *anticipated*   
   >them, being released three years before they happened.  And the novel   
   >it was based on (just "No Highway") came out three years before that.   
   >(By the way, Nevil Shute, its author, was a real-life airplane designer.)   
      
   "On the Beach."   
   >   
   >In the movie, the plane's unexpectedly short operating life is due   
   >to a fictional *nuclear reaction* in the metal, not to conventional   
   >metal fatigue as in the real-life disasters.  I don't know if this   
   >detail is the same in the novel.   
      
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