Offering varied food service and seating areas with tables ... enough to transport up to 76 passengers. de Havilland had a plan: the proposed Comet 5, that may have allowed it to keep up with ...

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 ...

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 ...

The de Havilland Comet was initially conceived as a short-range mailplane with limited passenger seating, but the design was soon expanded into a long-range commercial airliner. The aircraft's ...

De Havilland lost over four years because of the accidents and the public lost confidence in the Comet. Sales plummeted ... 80 with a wider hull that would seat six passengers abreast and could ...

When the de Havilland Comet flew into the sky in 1949, it changed aviation for good. BBC Future examines the legacy of a flawed but far-reaching design. On 7 April 1954, Peter Duffey co-piloted ...

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 ...

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, the world’s first passenger jet, made its commercial debut 70 years ago. We look at how Flight reported the event and subsequent developments, and regarded the ...