The Uninsurable Future: Climate Risk and the Collapse of Property Insurance
·355 words·2 mins
How the climate change is affecting property insurance markets, leading to soaring premiums and widespread nonrenewals.
Disaster Analysis
The Uninsurable Future – Part 1: Mapping the Climate-Driven Crisis Through Soaring Premiums and Nonrenewal Rates
·891 words·5 mins
The Canary in the Coal Mine Sings of Climate Risk #
Safety Shield: The Logic of Zero-Failure Systems
·230 words·2 mins
An exploration of the safety shield: the logic of zero-failure systems.
Cracked Sky: The Price of the Jet Age
·211 words·1 min
Systems and Innovation
De Havilland Comet 1
Metal Fatigue
Pressurization Cycles
Stress Concentration
Square Windows
ADF Windows
Calcutta Crash (G-ALYV)
Elba Crash (G-ALYP)
Naples Crash (G-ALYY)
Water Tank Testing (Farnborough)
G-ALYU Test Failure
Prototype G-ALVG
Cold-Working
Proof Testing (2P)
Safe-Life Design Philosophy
Fail-Safe Design
Damage Tolerance
BCAR D3-7
Institutional Denial
Weather Attribution Fallacy
Stress Raisers
Aluminum Alloy DTD 546
Catastrophic Failure
Fracture Face Analysis
Redundant Load Paths
Rip-Stop Design
Aviation Safety Regulation
Systems Thinking
Disaster Analysis
Technological History
Design and Innovation
A three-part investigation into the de Havilland Comet 1, the world's first jet airliner, and the scientific detective work that uncovered the hidden physics of pressurized flight.
Cracked Sky – Part 4: Photo Gallery of the Comet Disaster
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Systems and Innovation
De Havilland Comet 1
Metal Fatigue
Pressurization Cycles
Stress Concentration
Square Windows
ADF Windows
Calcutta Crash (G-ALYV)
Elba Crash (G-ALYP)
Naples Crash (G-ALYY)
Water Tank Testing (Farnborough)
G-ALYU Test Failure
Prototype G-ALVG
Cold-Working
Proof Testing (2P)
Safe-Life Design Philosophy
Fail-Safe Design
Damage Tolerance
BCAR D3-7
Institutional Denial
Weather Attribution Fallacy
Stress Raisers
Aluminum Alloy DTD 546
Catastrophic Failure
Fracture Face Analysis
Redundant Load Paths
Rip-Stop Design
Aviation Safety Regulation
Systems Thinking
Disaster Analysis
Technological History
Design and Innovation
A photo gallery of the Comet disaster.