It was the world’s first commercial jet airliner — sleek, fast, and revolutionary. But the de Havilland Comet’s success was short-lived. A fatal design flaw, hidden in plain sight ...

In the event of an airplane accident, the flight recorder provides data that is invaluable for clarification. The device was ...

Members of Transformation House Church celebrated marriage at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum. The event, titled 'Love is in the air,' was organised by Kole Olagbaiye, who runs the Church's Marriage ...

A former reporter for the Comet and Welwyn Hatfield Times has died, aged 79. Born in Stanmore in October 1945, Bob Bryant moved to Hatfield in the early 1950s and grew up with his parents, where his ...

The luxury of the Golden Age of air travel is still alive and well in the first-class cabins of the world's leading airlines.

In the 1950s, the British introduced the de Havilland Comet, the world’s first commercial jet airliner. It was a leap forward in aviation technology, faster and quieter than anything before it.

This timepiece, the GMT-Master (or GMT-Master II ), has proliferated through the zeitgeist to such an extent that even ...

The age of jet-powered scheduled passenger air travel began in 1952 with the De Havilland Comet 1. However ... while not quite as refined as today's aircraft, were faster and smoother than ...

On October 4, 1958, British Overseas Aircraft Corporation (BOAC) operated the first scheduled jet-powered transatlantic flight using a De Havilland Comet 4, per Airways Mag. The aircraft flew from ...

The Wright Brothers are probably the most well-known aircraft designers in history ... There are many great things one can say about the De Havilland Comet, but the bad certainly outweighs the good.