The de Havilland Comet was the world’s first commercial jet airliner — a 1949 ...
De Havilland Aircraft Museum, England — Today, jet-powered plane travel is easy to take for granted. We’re used to that surge of speed along the runway that pins us to our seats, those moments when we ...
British aviation history is full of planes that people remember for what they could do and how they looked. These planes were ...
"This Report was compiled by the Royal Aircraft Establishment on the instructions of the Minister of Supply as part of the evidence to be submitted to the Public Inquiry into the accidents which ...