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    de Havilland DH.106 Comet is the world's first commercial jet airliner. Developed and manufactured by de Havilland in the United Kingdom, the Comet 1 prototype...
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    The de Havilland DH.88 Comet is a British two-seat, twin-engined aircraft built by the de Havilland Aircraft Company. It was developed specifically to...
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  • multirole aircraft; and the pioneering passenger jet airliner Comet. The de Havilland company became a member of the Hawker Siddeley group in 1960, but...
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    enter airline service (with BOAC). The Ghost powered the de Havilland Venom, de Havilland Comet and SAAB 29 Tunnan. It was a scaled-up development of the...
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    Fuselage only de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1A G-ANAV – Nose section de Havilland DH.106 Comet C.2(R) XK695 – Cockpit section de Havilland DH.106 Comet 2 – Nose section...
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    commercial jetliner, the de Havilland Comet, suffers disaster as three planes break up in mid-air, causing de Havilland and all other manufacturers to...
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    un-refuelled non-stop transatlantic flight by a jet, and a BOAC de Havilland Comet 4 powered by four Avons made the first scheduled transatlantic crossing...
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    nightfighter ace who became, in 1949, the first person to pilot the de Havilland Comet jet airliner. Considered an important testbed for high-speed flight...
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  • and military operators of the de Havilland Comet since its introduction in 1952. Aerolíneas Argentinas ordered six Comet 4s in 1958 and they were delivered...
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    passenger flight from Singapore to London. On 10 January 1954, a de Havilland Comet passenger jet operating the flight suffered an explosive decompression...
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