On July 17, 1949, renowned British aircraft company de Havilland introduced the world's first commercial jet airliner: the de Havilland Comet. Equipped with four Ghost turbojet engines, large square ...

On the list of the most influential aircraft designers of the 20th century, Geoffrey de Havilland is on whatever short list you want to make. From biplanes to passenger jets, he's designed or helped ...

When he first laid eyes on the plane that ushered in the commercial Jet Age, Jim Goodall didn't have much hope that the British de Havilland Comet -- the only one in the Americas -- could ever be ...

EVERETT — The old jetliner’s interior hardly resembles what it looked like 20 years ago. Slime and mold covered nearly every surface of the de Havilland Comet 4C when the Museum of Flight got it in ...

WHEN ROBERT HOOD LOOKED AT THE DE HAVILLAND D.H. 106 COMET fuselage sticking halfway out of a hole cut in the huge hangar at the Museum of Flight’s restoration facility in Everett, Washington, he was ...

It’s an extraordinary fact that the maiden flight 70 years ago this month of the pioneering de Havilland Comet was an event missed by the British aviation press, because they’d all headed back to ...