The de Havilland Comet Racer of 1934 is a ravishingly beautiful machine with an incredible, perhaps miraculous, backstory.
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein,” 1818 ...
When Britain unveiled the De Havilland Comet in 1952, it stunned the world with speed, silence, and sleek design. Passengers ...
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