March 2009: De Havilland Comet gets Paint job

Morelli Group have agreed to donate the paint to help restore the sole surviving de Havilland Comet at the de Havilland aircraft museum in Hertfordshire.

The museum who's website can be found at, http://www.dehavillandmuseum.co.uk
has been a customer of Morelli Enfield and Southgate before that for some time and our products can be found on many of the exhibits.

As you can see in the picture the plane is minus its wings and is going to be sporting the colours of Air France as no British versions of the plane are in existence, originally the body would have been polished aluminium but the restored body will be painted silver. The de Havilland Comet was the world's first commercial jet airliner to reach production.

Developed and manufactured by de Havilland it first flew in 1949 and was considered a landmark British aeronautical design. After a successful introduction into commercial service, early Comet models suffered from catastrophic metal fatigue causing a string of well-publicised accidents.