EVERETT — The old jetliner’s interior hardly resembles what it looked like 20 years ago. Slime and mold covered nearly every surface of the de Havilland Comet 4C when the Museum of Flight got it in ...
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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 ...
EVERETT -- The famed '50s beauty rests on jacks, permanently grounded. Its rotted interior has been gutted and the corroded skin on its 118-foot frame patched. Bob Hood looks lovingly at the De ...
The Museum of Flight celebrates the 50th anniversary of commercial jet travel with a series of events this weekend, including an open house at the museum’s restoration center at Paine Field. The open ...
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The Jet That Changed Aviation Through Catastrophe
It was the world’s first jet airliner—sleek, fast, and revolutionary. But the de Havilland Comet's groundbreaking leap into the Jet Age came at a terrible cost. Discover how design flaws, overlooked ...
When Britain unveiled the De Havilland Comet in 1952, it stunned the world with speed, silence, and sleek design. Passengers ...
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 ...
WHEN ROBERT HOOD LOOKED AT THE DE HAVILLAND D.H. 106 COMET fuselage sticking halfway out of a hole cut in the huge hangar at the Museum of Flight’s restoration facility in Everett, Washington, he was ...
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