Why do planes and ships have round windows?
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The de Havilland comet was a 50s era early jet airliner with square windows, it was seen as futuristic at the time, but they were abandoned after redesign work following three mid air breakups of the aircraft resulting from metal fatigue or other structural failure (not bombed or shot down)
Basically square holes cause concentrations of stress at the corners.
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