Aircraft - Aviation - Balloons - Helicopters
Apr. 12, 1954 - Cat's Eyes Cunningham to repeat comet crash climb. Chief test pilot of the De Havilland company. Group Captain John ('Cat's Eyes') Cunningham is to help in the investigation into the recent Comet crashed disaster to her two sister planes over the Mediterranean. He wants to fine the answer to what went wrong with the aircraft. The machine he will while cine camera inside her fuselage look for trouble every foot of the wayt. captain Cunningham - who is chief test pilot of the De Havilland company will simulate the last flight of her sister machines using the same engines settings to maintain the same rate of climb up to the turbulent air of the upper atmosphere. Photo shows Captain Cunningham with is mother in the garden of their country home yesterday
