98 Mosquito, a light bomber ... fleet from new being the 19 aircraft of BOAC. Notably, engineers from the American manufacturers commented that had de Havilland not experienced the Comet 1's ...

De Havilland’s Comet ... and made a 23,000-mile trail-blazing flight to Tokyo and back. In a few weeks BOAC plans to start regular service to Singapore, add a Tokyo run early next year.

Within months, BOAC had added flights to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Karachi, Singapore and Tokyo. Meanwhile, de Havilland was notching up new orders for its remarkable aircraft from Canadian Pacific ...

You can come and see this whole magnificent timber yard, flying in very close formation, when the de Havilland Mosquito takes to the air at Flying Heritage Combat Armor Museum’s SkyFair, July 22 ...

60 years ago today a BOAC de Havilland Comet 1 carried 36 passengers on the first leg of a journey from London to Johannesburg on what was the first fare paying passenger flight in a Jet Airliner.

The Mosquito plane was wheeled out of its hangar at The de Havilland Aircraft Museum in London Colney, Hertfordshire, at 14:45 GMT. Geoffrey de Havilland Jnr, the son of the manufacturer ...

The DH98 de Havilland Mosquito was regarded as the most versatile war plane and was used for fighting, bombing, reconnaissance and pathfinder missions. The wooden test aircraft, number W4050 ...

98 Mosquito, a light bomber that entered RAF ... 2 May 1952, the world’s first ever jet airliner, BOAC’s De Havilland Comet G-ALYP, began its maiden flight from London to Johannesburg.

60 years ago today a BOAC de Havilland Comet 1 carried 36 passengers on the first leg of a journey from London to Johannesburg on what was the first fare paying passenger flight in a Jet Airliner.