TIME AND PLACE
Nov 04, 2020
2 minutes
Richard Holt
n May 1952, a British-built de Havilland Comet flew from London to Johannesburg at speeds approaching 500mph. This was the first passenger jet to offer commercial flights and it opened up a bright new future. Not for de Havilland itself, sadly. The Comet was beset by problems – there were several highly publicised crashes, the fleet was grounded and by the early Sixties, the company went
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