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 Comet 4 was the final result of de Havilland's efforts to correct these issues with a more resilient design and four RR Avon 524 engines that offered speeds of 503 mph.

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 ...

A square-windowed model has been displayed outside the de Havilland Museum, Hertfordshire, since 1985. Work will now take place to restore its "flaking" aluminium parts.

Though it flew mainly with BOAC, the Comet was extremely popular and carried over 30,000 passengers during its first year of operation. It seemed like De Havilland would soon have more orders than ...

The de Havilland DH.106 Comet was the world's first commercial jet airliner. Developed and manufactured by de Havilland in the United Kingdom, the Comet 1 prototype first flew in 1949.

The first Comet had a maximum take-off weight of 50 tons (110,000 lbs) and a capacity of 36 passengers. Tiny, compared to 2023 flying ships, but if the airplane were any bigger, it would have ...

No airworthy DH 106s remain. This Comet Racer - the G-ACSS Grosvenor House - will take its place instead and fly on 27 July over Ellenbrook fields - the site of the old de Havilland airport.

E ver 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 ...