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
The full history of Concorde, the Anglo-French supersonic airliner: its origins, design, the Olympus engines, entry into service in 1976, the 2000 Paris crash, retirement in 2003 and where to see the surviving aircraft today. Read article
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