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 ...

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 ...