Interesting fact: the nose section of the Caravelle was borrowed from the DeHavilland Comet.
Perhaps why it looked more elegant than a typical French nose!
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Compare the pair.
SNCASEâs design licensed several fuselage features from British aircraft company de Havilland, the two companies already having had dealings in respect to several earlier designs. The nose area and cockpit layout were taken directly from the de Havilland Comet jet airliner, while the rest of the airliner was locally designed.[2]
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So when the Vic government takes over a moribund Qantas, what other name do we use since it looks as if Dan-Air is taken.
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Its OK, pretty sure that they went out of business 40+ years ago.
They were still around in the early 90âs. The sale to BA happened when I was living there so must have been 92-93. BA paid a token figure of ÂŁ1 or something similar to purchase them.
There is a Romanian Airline called Dan Air though 
Seems like you should share that info then!
Comet and DANAIR in one thread!
Unfortunately I donât know if the truth will ever be known. I do know a few high placed Qantas staff from Engineering who worked on the old girl and Iâve remained friends with one for years and even he wasnât given the full breakdown of costs but they were pretty much told to fix it âwhatever the costâ as Qantas didnât want to lose their first hull since the jet engine era.
Qantas claimed it cost around $95m to fix but the belief amongst staff is that costs were double that at a minimum which wouldâve been more than what a brand new 747 was worth back then.
It returned to service no issues and did a marvellous job just like the rest of them. Last I had heard of it was that it was completely scrapped in the US several years ago
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So not so much the repairs, as the accounting of it all. If you count brand reputation it was probably worth it I guess.
Oh, absolutely no problems with the repairs and if anything they probably went outside of the scope required and spared no expense in doing so.
Was almost better than new in many regards
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The airframe was scrapped at Marana - 2013
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Yeah, I believe Lufthansa ended up with a heap of spares from it including the engines
No this is the Essendon Administration trying to erase the Bomber from the logo.
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Not sure this is Qantas maintenance, there seems to be paint adhesion issues across a number of airlines over recent months. Suspect thereâs issues with a paint supplier or similar.
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Airbus in particular has had paint issues. Itâs not a maintenance problem
Nah, plane just had some ink-work done is all.
Got in a mean fight with an emirates plane.
This was very, very close to a catastrophic loss of lives and unfortunately these kind of blunders are becoming more frequent
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Dansett?
