News | 29 May 2013 08:28 | David Kaminski-Morrow
Aeroflot is taking delivery of a new Airbus A320 which features a retro livery, based on a former Soviet-era colour scheme. The aircraft, MSN5614,...http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Aeroflot-receives-Soviet-retro-A320-386425/News | 02 Jan 2009 00:01 | Bill Gunston
Despite its problems, the Comet was a revolution in air transport. But this would be a decade of firsts, many of them Britishhttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Flight-100-History-1949-1958-320368/News | 02 Jan 2009 00:01 | Günter Endres
The jet was king and the Jumbo Jet proved bigger was definitely better. Meanwhile, the Harrier showed the UK could still leadhttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/Flight-100-History-1959-1979-320367/News | 27 Jul 1999 23:00
As Airbus fine tunes its A3XX design, the world celebrates a half century of jet travel <p><img src='../Assets/GetAsset.aspx?ItemID=3121' /></p> <p>On Wednesday 27 July, 1949, the world's first jet airliner, the de Havilland (DH) 106 Comet, made its first flight from Hatfield airfield, just north of London. That historic half an hour trip marked the beginning of the jet transport age, officially half a century old this week. </p> <p>At the controls for the 31min flight that summer's evening was DH chief test pilot John Cunningham, who took the jet up to 8,000ft (2,440m). When the Comet flew, less than 40 million people were travelling by air each year. Fifty years on, annual passenger air traffic is approaching 1.5 billion and growth continues at a rate of 5% annually. The development of the jet airliner has affected most people. </p> <p>Manufacturers have delivered almost 21,000 jet airliners. But the industry has undergone much consolidation. Only Airbus and Boeing remain as majhttp://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/50-years-ago-54317/