1953 Original Canadian Pacific Poster, Comet Jetliners Across the Pacific
1953 Original Canadian Pacific Poster, Comet Jetliners Across the Pacific
1953 Original Canadian Pacific Poster, Comet Jetliners Across the Pacific
1953 Original Canadian Pacific Poster, Comet Jetliners Across the Pacific
1953 Original Canadian Pacific Poster, Comet Jetliners Across the Pacific
1953 Original Canadian Pacific Poster, Comet Jetliners Across the Pacific
1953 Original Canadian Pacific Poster, Comet Jetliners Across the Pacific
1953 Original Canadian Pacific Poster, Comet Jetliners Across the Pacific

1953 Original Canadian Pacific Poster, Comet Jetliners Across the Pacific

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Date: 1953
Size:  25 x 40 inches
Artist: Anonymous

About The Poster: The first known CPR poster was printed in 1883. Since then, thousands of brochures, posters, menus, advertisements and other items have been created to promote travel, immigration and settlement, war efforts, freight traffic and other services provided by the company. In early years, CPR sponsored artists - both well-known and emerging talent - by providing railway passes to take them to scenic locations along the line, and CPR had the option to purchase works produced from these trips. In later years, CPR commissioned artists and even employed full-time graphic artists in the company's studio in Montreal. 

About the Comer Jetliner: One of our Instagram followers provided the following information on this particular aircraft: "The Comet aircraft, named "Empress of Hawaii", operated on a delivery flight to Canadian Pacific Air Lines. Since the airline wanted to use the aircraft to open their service between Sydney, Australia and Honolulu, Hawaii on April 28th 1953, it was to be flown to Sydney.


The flight crew had completed a Comet jet conversion training in the U.K. and were still inexperienced in operating the Comet when they departed for the ferry flight to Australia. Neither of the pilots had experienced a night takeoff in the jet, nor had they flown it heavily loaded. The takeoff from Karachi would be the first night time takeoff.


During takeoff, while accellerating past a speed of 85 knots, the pilot raised the nose wheel. He should have levelled the plane until the nose wheel was just off the runway. Instead he continued to roll nose-high. In this position wing drag increased, causing a slower than needed acceleration. Nearing the end of the runway, the pilot brought the nose down but the remaining runway length was insufficient to reach rotation speed.


The aircraft ran off the end of the runway and a wheel on the starboard undercarriage struck the culvert of a perimeter drainage ditch. The Comet swerved and plunged into a dry canal. At a speed of more than 138 mph, the Comet impacted the forty-foot embankment on the far side of the canal.

CF-CUN was the first passenger jetliner involved in a fatal accident." (Thanks to Philippe Brun)

Poster was recently linen backed and is ready to frame. From a private collection.