The De Havilland Aircraft Company ... The company also developed the DH.106 Comet, a revolutionary model in its time, and what is considered to be the world's first glimpse of an airliner with ...

An early-model BOAC Comet jet disintegrated in mid‐air after encountering severe turbulence shortly after departure from Dum ...

The Comet 1 airliner roared into the air— and into history—on 20,000 pounds of thrust from its four De Havilland Ghost jet engines. For the first time ever, a jet-propelled aircraft was ...

Many were converted from wartime bombers or freight transport aircraft and had quaint old-fashioned names such as Tudor, Lancastrian and Argonaut. The Comet, on the other hand, looked like an ...

BOAC, the predecessors to British Airways, made history on October 4, 1948 when their de Havilland Comet aircraft crossed the ... manufactured for the new model Comet, with the massive reduction ...

A square-windowed model has been displayed outside ... because they worked out what was wrong from the plane that went in before it." The Comet 1A was pushed inside by volunteers Museum marketing ...