The de Havilland Comet Racer of 1934 is a ravishingly beautiful machine with an incredible, perhaps miraculous, backstory.

Aerolineas Argentinas flight 322, a de Havilland DH-106 Comet, crashed shortly after takeoff from São Paulo/Campina Airport, Brazil, killing all 52 occupants. Flight AR322 was a scheduled service from ...

A de Havilland DH-106 Comet 1 passenger plane, operated by BOAC, was destroyed in an accident near Calcutta, India. All 43 on board were killed. The airplane operated on a return flight from London, ...

ABOVE: G-ACSS completed the some 11,300 mile course in under 71 hours; a new point-to-point world record. The Shuttleworth Collection is to celebrate the 90 th anniversary of the MacRobertson Air Race ...

The age of piston-engine air travel still exists today, but its golden era was the 1920s to 1950s. A vast, exciting world opened to air tourists in this stylish, dashing age of glamour and more than a ...

Shuttleworth’s Air Show season concludes on Sunday 5 October with their Race Day Air Show, a classic blend of vintage aircraft and vehicles that share a common theme: speed. Did you know with an ...

Four years ago, Test Pilot John Derry became the first Briton to pass the speed of sound and live to tell about it (TIME, Sept. 20, 1948).* Last week, at Britain’s annual Farnborough Air Show, Derry ...

De Havilland of Canada is just steps away from beginning the first phase of construction for their aerospace campus, set to be established in Wheatland County. Neil Sweeney, vice president of ...

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