BOAC Comet: First Transatlantic commercial jet flight
“We have got the taps right open”. So read one of the radio messages passed from British Overseas Airways Corporation DH Comet 4 G-APDB to a sister aircraft as they made the first commercial jet flight across the Atlantic, between New York and London, 60 years ago — and injected new hope into the troubled Comet story
AEROPLANE meets MATTHEW BODDINGTON
As an accomplished pilot and engineer, this stalwart of the vintage...
