The company eventually built more than 1,000 of these iconic aircraft. Back in the UK, de Havilland developed the Comet 2 and 3, before releasing the Comet 4 to the airlines by the end of 1958.

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 ...

On May 23, 1967, the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod took its maiden flight, marking a significant evolution in maritime patrol ...

On Saturday, May 2, 1952, the world's first jetliner service began commercial operations when a British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) De Havilland Comet passenger jet, registration G-ALYP ...

1952: A de Havilland Comet, flying for British Overseas Airways Corporation, becomes the first jet aircraft to enter commercial service, carrying passengers from London to Johannesburg ...

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 was the world’s first jet airliner—sleek, fast, and revolutionary. But the de Havilland Comet's groundbreaking leap into the Jet Age came at a terrible cost. Discover how design flaws ...

It was Saturday, May 2, 1952. On board were 36 passengers ... That honor went to De Havilland and the Comet, which had made a shrinking world even smaller, changing forever the way its people ...

At the center of the story is Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, whose Comet was the world’s first commercial jetliner. For a year, these planes were the pride of a war-battered nation and the envy of ...

BOAC, the predecessors to British Airways, made history on October 4, 1948 when their de Havilland Comet aircraft crossed the Atlantic in less than seven hours. The Comet was put into service in ...

This is the story of the rise and fall of the De Havilland Comet - the world’s first passenger jet airliner. Key first-hand accounts, expert interviews, reconstructions and never before seen ...