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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 ...
Garry Lakin The Comet 1A has been moved inside the new £3m hangar at the De Havilland Museum at Salisbury Hall 30 November 2019 ...
Two of the Shuttleworth Collection's classic racers - the de Havilland DH.88 Comet and the Miles Hawk Speed Six - perform practice displays ahead of the start of the 2025 airshow season at Old Warden.
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.
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 ...
Geoffrey de Havilland was one of the most influential aircraft designers of the 20th century. Take a tour of the museum dedicated to his genius.