IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Officials in the British Air Ministry ...

Sixty-nine years ago, to the date, a Comet crashed in the Mediterranean Sea and changed the world forever. On April 8, 1954, a De Havilland DH 106 Comet plummeted into the water, effectively ending ...

On December 3, 1945, Lieutenant-Commander Eric Melrose Brown made aviation history by launching and landing a de Havilland ...

Eighty years ago today (September 25, 1945), the de Havilland DH.104 Dove took to the skies for the first time. Designed and built in Britain, the Dove was created as a modern, all-metal, twin-engine ...

We all know the de Havilland Mosquito was made mostly of wood, but the whittler in me wants to know what kind. “Which wood?” isn’t an accurate question. “What kinds of wood?” fits the bill better. De ...

The de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth, introduced in 1932, was a pivotal military trainer aircraft designed by Geoffrey de Havilland, known for being "easy to fly but difficult to master." It played a ...

Many of today's most iconic aircraft bear the names of those aviation visionaries who were instrumental in bringing them into being. The lightning-fast Sukhoi Su-57, for instance, was developed by the ...

A more direct ancestor to the D. H. 98 was the de Havilland D.H. 91 Albatross air transport. After much official delay, de Havilland built seven of these four-engine airliners and Imperial Airways ...