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  • de Havilland Comet: The First Jet Airliner

    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

  • de Havilland Mosquito: The Wooden Wonder

    de Havilland Mosquito: The Wooden Wonder

    It was built of wood when the rest of the world was building fighters from aluminium, it carried no defensive guns on its bomber versions, and it was one of the fastest and most versatile aircraft of the Second World War. This is the story of the de Havilland Mosquito. When de Havilland first proposed Read article

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