July 27, 2024 marked the 75th anniversary of the first flight of the de Havilland Comet, the world’s first jet-powered airliner. This airliner had a troubled start to service, but eventually ...

106 Comet, a revolutionary model in its time, and what is considered to be the world's first glimpse of an airliner with a jet engine. Let's take an in-depth look at how de Havilland brought jet ...

Sixty-nine years ago, to the date, a Comet crashed in the Mediterranean Sea and changed the world forever. On April 8, 1954, a De Havilland DH 106 Comet plummeted into the water, effectively ...

The de Havilland Comet, introduced in 1949, was more than just an aircraft - it was a game-changer for air travel. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the British government sought to ...

The Comet 1 airliner roared into the air— and into history—on 20,000 pounds of thrust from its four De Havilland Ghost jet engines. For the first time ever, a jet-propelled aircraft was ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: One of the Nimrod’s particularly useful characteristics was the airframe’s large bomb bay that could hold a variety of munitions, including sonobuoys used to ...

Some viewers surmised that Captain Steve (pictured) referred to the UK’s ill-fated de Havilland Comet 1 Aircraft, which experienced a spate of inflight disintegrations between 1953 and 1954.

Sam Howe Verhovek, the author of “Jet Age: The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World,” is a contributing writer for National Geographic magazine. The British-built de Havilland ...

Ever since Britain’s De Havilland Comet screamed across the sky last summer in its first 500 m.p.h. test flight, U.S. airline operators have wondered how the first jet airliner would perform as ...