de Havilland DH.106 Comet is the world's first commercial jet airliner. Developed and manufactured by de Havilland in the United Kingdom, the Comet 1...

The de Havilland DH.88 Comet is a British two-seat, twin-engined aircraft built by the de Havilland Aircraft Company. It was developed specifically to...

multirole aircraft; and the pioneering passenger jet airliner Comet. The de Havilland company became a member of the Hawker Siddeley group in 1960, but...

enter airline service (with BOAC). The Ghost powered the de Havilland Venom, de Havilland Comet and SAAB 29 Tunnan. It was a scaled-up development of the...

and military operators of the de Havilland Comet since its introduction in 1952. Aerolíneas Argentinas ordered six Comet 4s in 1958 and they were delivered...

nightfighter ace who became, in 1949, the first person to pilot the de Havilland Comet jet airliner. Considered an important testbed for high-speed flight...

Fuselage only de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1A G-ANAV – Nose section de Havilland DH.106 Comet C.2(R) XK695 – Cockpit section de Havilland DH.106 Comet 2 – Nose...

first un-refuelled non-stop transatlantic flight by a jet, and a BOAC de Havilland Comet 4 powered by four Avons made the first scheduled transatlantic crossing...

purpose-built jet airliners had four engines, among which stands the De Havilland Comet, the world's first commercial jetliner. In the decades following their...

all-inclusive package holiday with the operator. On 3 July 1970, the de Havilland Comet 4 aircraft serving the flight crashed into the wooded slopes of the...

creator of the de Havilland Mosquito, a wartime fighter-bomber, and the de Havilland Comet, the first commercial jet aircraft in the world. It had been developed...

was the German Heinkel He 178 in 1939. The first jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet, was introduced in 1952. The Boeing 707, the first widely successful...

of the de Havilland Comet airliner and to America later in the decade with the first American-built jet airliners. The British de Havilland Comet was the...

and his Comet was the first jet airliner to go into production. Born at Magdala House, Terriers, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, de Havilland was the second...

even back into the wing as on a number of older designs such as the De Havilland Comet and V bombers. Continuous descent approach Stealth aircraft Cloaking...

The de Havilland Comet airliner is featured in the 1952 British film The Sound Barrier. The 1927 William Wellman film Wings featured de Havilland DH.4s...

piston-engined aircraft" The first purpose-built jet airliner was the British de Havilland Comet which first flew in 1949 and entered service in 1952 with BOAC. It...

passenger flight from Singapore to London. On 10 January 1954, a de Havilland Comet passenger jet operating the flight suffered an explosive decompression...

jet-powered Type IV became the de Havilland Comet in 1949. It featured an aerodynamically clean design with four de Havilland Ghost turbojet engines buried...

introduction of the British de Havilland Comet jetliner in 1949. However, two catastrophic failures in 1954 temporarily grounded the Comet worldwide. The causes...

flights and all-year round scheduled services. The introduction of two de Havilland Comet series 4 jet aircraft in 1966 made Dan-Air the second British independent...

airliner, the de Havilland Comet. Boeing President Bill Allen led a company delegation to the UK in summer 1950, where they saw the Comet fly at the Farnborough...

out of Gatwick, initially using a fleet of seven second-hand ex-BEA de Havilland Comet series 4B aircraft which seated 109 passengers in a single-class configuration...

flight on May 27, 1955. It included some de Havilland designs and components developed for the de Havilland Comet. SNCASE merged into the larger Sud Aviation...

intercontinental jet aircraft production at the time was the British de Havilland Comet. However, the Comet series had been the subject of fatal accidents (due to design...

(1940–44) de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito (1943–45) de Havilland DH.104 Dove (1946–60) de Havilland DH.106 Comet (1952-54 & 1958–69) Douglas DC-3/C-47 Dakota...

by Avro during the 1950s. Although it flew nearly a year after the de Havilland Comet, it represented an experimental programme and was never intended for...

early versions of the de Havilland Comet jetliner and the de Havilland Venom fighter. The company later developed the de Havilland Gnome turboshaft under...

airliner. It was the second to enter regular service, behind the British de Havilland Comet and was the only jetliner operating in the world from 1956 to 1958...

major virtues. The intended market was for assisting take-off of de Havilland Comet 1 airliners (as hot and high operations in the British Empire were...