Before modern airliners became quiet and smooth, the De Havilland Comet changed aviation forever as the world’s first jet ...

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 been ...

On the list of the most influential aircraft designers of the 20th century, Geoffrey de Havilland is on whatever short list you want to make. From biplanes to passenger jets, he's designed or helped ...

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The world's first commercial jet, the De Havilland Comet, premiered in May of 1952. Sixty-five years later, another jet known as the Boeing 737 Max was introduced in May of 2017. While their stories ...

It’s an extraordinary fact that the maiden flight 70 years ago this month of the pioneering de Havilland Comet was an event missed by the British aviation press, because they’d all headed back to ...

When Britain began testing the world’s first jet airliner three years ago, U.S. plane builders and airline executives alike looked down their noses. De Havilland’s Comet, they said, would gobble too ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. B 29 GettyImages 517220374 Bettmann Getty Images The history of aviation is wild. The world went from the first powered flight in ...