The de Havilland DH-106 Comet 1 could fly higher and faster than any commercial airliner before it, but a series of ...
In early March, the Royal Air Force Museum announced its latest round of airframe disposals, affecting several historically significant aircraft on display at RAF Museum Midlands, Cosford. Among these ...
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Why airplane windows are round, not square — the 1954 disasters that killed 56 people and changed aviation forever
The de Havilland Comet was the world’s first commercial jet airliner — a 1949 British marvel that promised faster, higher, more comfortable air travel. Then in early 1954, two of them broke apart in ...
De Havilland Aircraft Museum, England (CNN) — 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 ...
"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 ...
The de Havilland Comet Racer of 1934 is a ravishingly beautiful machine with an incredible, perhaps miraculous, backstory.
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