The Comet jet airliner
May 04, 2022
2 minutes
by the de Havilland Aircraft Company
Jack Watkins
IF ever there was a flawed masterpiece, it was the 36-seat Comet airliner, a pioneer in civilian jet aviation destined to go down in flames. Although the Second World War had seen advances in jet-powered aircraft technology—led by Germany’s Heinkel He 178 and Messerschmitt Me 262 and Britain’s Gloster Meteor—civil
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