The de Havilland Comet was the world’s first commercial jet airliner — a 1949 British marvel that promised faster, higher, more comfortable air travel. Then in early 1954, two of them broke apart in ...
Explore the story of the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod, Britain’s jet-powered maritime patrol aircraft born from the Comet airliner.
"This Report was compiled by the Royal Aircraft Establishment on the instructions of the Minister of Supply as part of the evidence to be submitted to the Public Inquiry into the accidents which ...