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 ...

The tendency to pitch up violently, or enter an uncontrollable dive at the stall led to pilots flying the approach into ...

Taking to the skies for its first commercial flight in 1952, the de Havilland Comet 1A was a revolution in passenger aviation. With pioneering military jet technology, it flew faster, higher and was ...

Oval-shaped airplane windows are the norm today, but they were once square. Read on to find out what led to this structural ...

Ever since Britain’s De Havilland Comet screamed across the sky last summer in its first 500 m.p.h. test flight, U.S. airline operators have wondered how the first jet airliner would perform as a fare ...

If you ask most aviation geeks about the de Havilland Comet, they're bound to conjure images of hideous crashes, explosive decompression, and badly designed windows which led to stress fractures that ...

Attention, turbojet-heads: Turner Classic Movies airs "The Sound Barrier" at 8 p.m. EST Friday, May 7. The 1952 film, directed by David Lean, plays fast and loose with aerodynamics and aviation ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: One of the Nimrod’s particularly useful characteristics was the airframe’s large bomb bay that could hold a variety of munitions, including sonobuoys used to detect ...