The world's first commercial jet, the De Havilland Comet, premiered in May of 1952. Sixty-five years later, another jet known as the Boeing 737 Max was introduced in May of 2017. While their stories ...

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 Britain began testing the world’s first jet airliner three years ago, U.S. plane builders and airline executives alike looked down their noses. De Havilland’s Comet, they said, would gobble too ...

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 ...

When the second Comet I airliner in three months crashed off Italy, all England felt the blow to British national pride. But it found consolation in the sleek new Comets II and III hatching in De ...

Over the past week or so, I’ve had a surprising number of emails and calls asking roughly the same question: Is the 787 another Comet? The short answer is no. The Dreamliner, as Boeing calls its ...

A museum displaying the works of one of Britain's aviation pioneers has successfully appealed to keep a temporary hangar open. The de Havilland Aircraft Museum, near London Colney in Hertfordshire, ...