The Boeing 747, the original Jumbo Jet, was the world’s first wide-body airliner: it first flew on 9 February 1969, entered service with Pan Am on 22 January 1970, and by the time the final example was delivered in January 2023, 1,574 had been built and cheap long-haul air travel had become an ordinary fact Read article
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
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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