de Havilland DH.106 Comet is the world's first commercial jet airliner. Developed and manufactured by de Havilland in the United Kingdom, the Comet 1...

The de Havilland DH.88 Comet is a British two-seat, twin-engined aircraft built by the de Havilland Aircraft Company. It was developed specifically to...

multirole aircraft; and the pioneering passenger jet airliner Comet. The de Havilland company became a member of the Hawker Siddeley group in 1960, but...

enter airline service (with BOAC). The Ghost powered the de Havilland Venom, de Havilland Comet and SAAB 29 Tunnan. It was a scaled-up development of the...

and military operators of the de Havilland Comet since its introduction in 1952. Aerolíneas Argentinas ordered six Comet 4s in 1958 and they were delivered...

nightfighter ace who became, in 1949, the first person to pilot the de Havilland Comet jet airliner. Considered an important testbed for high-speed flight...

Dove 8 G-AREA de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1A F-BGNX – Fuselage only de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1A G-ANAV – Nose section de Havilland DH.106 Comet C.2(R) XK695...

first un-refuelled non-stop transatlantic flight by a jet, and a BOAC de Havilland Comet 4 powered by four Avons made the first scheduled transatlantic crossing...

purpose-built jet airliners had four engines, among which stands the De Havilland Comet, the world's first commercial jetliner. In the decades following their...

all-inclusive package holiday with the operator. On 3 July 1970, the de Havilland Comet 4 aircraft serving the flight crashed into the wooded slopes of the...

and his Comet was the first jet airliner to go into production. Born at Magdala House, Terriers, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, de Havilland was the second...

creator of the de Havilland Mosquito, a wartime fighter-bomber, and the de Havilland Comet, the first commercial jet aircraft in the world. It had been developed...

The de Havilland Comet airliner is featured in the 1952 British film The Sound Barrier. The 1927 William Wellman film Wings featured de Havilland DH.4s...

even back into the wing as on a number of older designs such as the De Havilland Comet and V bombers. Continuous descent approach Stealth aircraft Cloaking...

out of Gatwick, initially using a fleet of seven second-hand ex-BEA de Havilland Comet series 4B aircraft which seated 109 passengers in a single-class configuration...

of the de Havilland Comet airliner and to America later in the decade with the first American-built jet airliners. The British de Havilland Comet was the...

piston-engined aircraft" The first purpose-built jet airliner was the British de Havilland Comet which first flew in 1949 and entered service in 1952 with BOAC. It...

flight on May 27, 1955. It included some de Havilland designs and components developed for the de Havilland Comet. SNCASE merged into the larger Sud Aviation...

flights and all-year round scheduled services. The introduction of two de Havilland Comet series 4 jet aircraft in 1966 made Dan-Air the second British independent...

Peruvian airliner Cessna Comet, an early aircraft de Havilland Comet, a jet airliner de Havilland DH.88 Comet, a British two-seater racing aeroplane Dornier...

airliner, the de Havilland Comet in 1949. Boeing President Bill Allen led a company delegation to the UK in summer 1950, where they saw the Comet fly at the...

airliner. It was the second to enter regular service, behind the British de Havilland Comet and was the only jetliner operating in the world from 1956 to 1958...

introduction of the British de Havilland Comet jetliner in 1949. However, two catastrophic failures in 1954 temporarily grounded the Comet worldwide. These failures...

BEA introduced de Havilland Comet 4B aircraft on the Nicosia, Athens, Rome and London routes. With the introduction of the Comets, Cyprus Airways became...

(1940–44) de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito (1943–45) de Havilland DH.104 Dove (1946–60) de Havilland DH.106 Comet (1952-54 & 1958–69) Douglas DC-3/C-47 Dakota...

was the German Heinkel He 178 in 1939. The first jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet, was introduced in 1952. The Boeing 707, the first widely successful...

first commercial jetliner, the de Havilland Comet, suffers disaster as three planes break up in mid-air, causing de Havilland and all other manufacturers...

Airlines in October 1969. This resulted in the return of the last MSA de Havilland Comet 4s leased from British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) being returned...

jet-powered Type IV became the de Havilland Comet in 1949. It featured an aerodynamically clean design with four de Havilland Ghost turbojet engines buried...

passenger flight from Singapore to London. On 10 January 1954, a de Havilland Comet passenger jet operating the flight suffered an explosive decompression...