https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/around-the-world-in-80-days/ Tue, 22 Sep 2015 17:48:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/around-the-world-in-80-days/#comment-803978 Tue, 22 Sep 2015 17:48:11 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=35841#comment-803978 After the clip, YouTube suggested another Dietrich film “No Highway in the Sky”.
It’s a British film about an eccentric engineer (James Stewart) who comes to the conclusion that Britain’s new state-of-the art airliner has a flaw that will cause it to crash due to structural failure caused by metal fatigue.
What is almost creepy is this film came out in 1951 – a year before the Comet jetliner entered service and three years before they started breaking up in mid-air due to structural failure caused by metal fatigue!

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