The Boeing 707 was not the first jet airliner and it did not cross the Atlantic first. What it did was make the cheap seat pay. The Dash 80 gamble, the roll over Lake Washington, the arithmetic that finished the piston fleets, and the rule the 707 left behind. 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
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