De Havilland Comet

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title: De Havilland Comet
text: The de Havilland DH.106 Comet is the world's first commercial jet airliner. Developed and manufactured by de Havilland in the United Kingdom, the Comet 1 prototype first flew in 1949. It features an aerodynamically clean design with four de Havilland Ghost turbojet engines buried in the wing roots, a pressurised cabin, and large windows. For the era, it offered a relatively quiet, comfortable passenger cabin and was commercially promising at its debut in 1952. Within a year of the airliner's ent
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description: First commercial jet airliner
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Comet
date created: 2003-02-13T16:34:27Z
date modified: 2024-09-07T17:42:59Z
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