The first Comets, designated Comet 1, utilized de Havilland’s Ghost turbojets ... made a wheels-up landing following a hydraulic failure in 2017. The Sea Vixen was powered by the same type ...

An early-model BOAC Comet jet disintegrated in mid‐air after encountering severe turbulence shortly after departure from Dum ...

The Comet 1A has been moved inside the new £3m hangar at the De Havilland Museum at Salisbury Hall The last surviving example of a plane with a window design that contributed to fatal crashes has ...

While high stress was found at the window corners, these were not the source of the hull failure ... dashed from the grip of De Havilland but, ironically, the Comet is what made the 707 possible.

In 1943, De Havilland developed the concept for the turbojet-powered DH106 "Comet," which would change commercial aviation forever. In 1946, three years after initially coming up with the idea ...

a good exercise would be to consider the repercussions of mechanical failure. A notable real-world example to aid this is the 1954 crash of the De Havilland Comet. As the world’s first ...

The de Havilland Comet, introduced in 1949 ... aerodynamic drag and reduce the risk of asymmetric thrust during engine failure. As a result, it allowed for a smaller vertical stabilizer and ...

Only 114 Comets were ever delivered. De Havilland never recovered. “The Comet failure was a blow to morale” in the UK aerospace industry, Hayward said. But its subsequent failure had more to ...

106 Comet, a revolutionary model in its time, and what is considered to be the world's first glimpse of an airliner with a jet engine. Let's take an in-depth look at how de Havilland brought jet ...

The de Havilland Comet jet — which had been the world ... eventually found both were caused by in-flight metal fatigue failure, which led to explosive decompression and midair breakup.

The Comet 1A has been moved inside the new £3m hangar at the De Havilland Museum at Salisbury Hall The last surviving example of a plane with a window design that contributed to fatal crashes has ...