In article ,
Peter Skelton wrote:
This was the second jet airliiner to fly, 13 days after the
Comet's first short trial. The prototype flew for several years
without serious incident before being scrapped.

There's a copy of a 1950 ASME lecture about the design at

http://www.avroarrow.org/Jetliner/Jetliner.html

There's also an (excellent) article in this month's Aeroplane
Monthly magazine (UK). Recommended.

--
Andy Breen ~ Interplanetary Scintillation Research Group
http://users.aber.ac.uk/azb/
Feng Shui: an ancient oriental art for extracting
money from the gullible (Martin Sinclair)