On July 17, 1949, renowned British aircraft company de Havilland introduced the world's first commercial jet airliner: the de ...

The tendency to pitch up violently, or enter an uncontrollable dive at the stall led to pilots flying the approach into ...

Ever since Britain’s De Havilland Comet screamed across the sky last summer in its first 500 m.p.h. test flight, U.S. airline operators have wondered how the first jet airliner would perform as a fare ...

If you ask most aviation geeks about the de Havilland Comet, they're bound to conjure images of hideous crashes, explosive decompression, and badly designed windows which led to stress fractures that ...

Attention, turbojet-heads: Turner Classic Movies airs "The Sound Barrier" at 8 p.m. EST Friday, May 7. The 1952 film, directed by David Lean, plays fast and loose with aerodynamics and aviation ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: One of the Nimrod’s particularly useful characteristics was the airframe’s large bomb bay that could hold a variety of munitions, including sonobuoys used to detect ...

But what began as a triumph soon turned into a cautionary tale. Within just two years, the pioneering jet was grounded after a series of fatal mid-air breakups. The Comet’s dramatic rise and fall ...