The De Havilland Comet was the world’s first commercial jet airliner, launching Britain into the Jet Age with groundbreaking ...

The De Havilland Comet’s first flight in 1952 marked the dawn of the jet-airliner era and transformed commercial aviation.

De Havilland Aircraft Museum, England — Today, jet-powered plane travel is easy to take for granted. We’re used to that surge of speed along the runway that pins us to our seats, those moments when we ...

The de Havilland Comet made history as the world’s first commercial jet airliner, but its early success was quickly ...

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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 detect ...

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