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

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 ...

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 ...