The Jet Age Dawns: Early Jet Airliners of the 1950s
The story of the early jet airliners of the 1950s: the de Havilland Comet, Tupolev Tu-104, Sud Aviation Caravelle, Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8, and how the jet age began. Read article
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de Havilland Comet: The First Jet Airliner
On 2 May 1952 a de Havilland Comet registered G-ALYP took off from London Airport and set course for Johannesburg with fare-paying passengers aboard. Nothing like it had ever happened before. The world’s first jet airliner was in scheduled service, flying far higher and considerably faster than the piston airliners it replaced, and it was Read article