Many of today's most iconic aircraft bear the names of those aviation visionaries who were instrumental in bringing them into being. The lightning-fast Sukhoi Su-57, for instance, was developed by ...

July 27, 2024 marked the 75th anniversary of the first flight of the de Havilland Comet ... (Image credit: author) The DH.88 Comet, a very different aircraft to the DH.106 Comet that is the ...

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 ...

Building on the vision set out by the Committee, de Havilland responded with the DH 106 Comet: the world’s first purpose-built commercial jetliner. Spearheaded by Sir Geoffrey de Havilland ...

It will fly over the original de Havilland airstrip in Hertfordshire to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the first flight of the DH 106 Comet - the world's first commercial jet airliner.

Six months after it became the first commercial jet airliner to reach production, The Engineer examined the performance of the De Havilland Comet. 'These figures bear out predictions made when the ...

The Comet 1A has been moved inside the new £3m hangar at the De Havilland Museum at Salisbury Hall The last surviving example of a plane with a window design that contributed to fatal crashes has ...

It will fly over the original de Havilland airstrip in Hertfordshire to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the first flight of the DH 106 Comet - the world's first commercial jet airliner.