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 ...26 * FLIGHT 23 MARCH 1950
DeHAVILLAND
COMET
WORLD'S FASTEST AIRLINER
LONDON—ROME
IN UNDER
HOURS
FUELLED IN BOTH CAPITALS
AVIATION
TURBO FUEL
*(Subject to official confirmation)
'!-... '•-. _.•">"...
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 ...6 FLIGHT, 6 January 1956
COMET IN THE ASCENDANT
THE magic of two names—Comet andHawaii—is perfectly distilled in the
picture above of the flower-garlanded deHavilland Comet 3 a few minutes after its
arrival at the airport of Honolulu. It cap-tures something of the spirit of an historic
round-the-world flight which, fast butunflustered, was marked at eve...
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 ...of the machine in fight, is
proved by this impressive photographic study. - ~
COMET IN THE SKY
Surprise Maiden Flight of Britain's Most Advanced Air Liner ,
ON Wednesday, July 27th, at 6.17 p.m., the deHavilland Comet made its first flight. Aftertake-off, John Cunningham took the aircraft up in
a steady climb to 8,000ft, thence carrying out some general
handling trials, including tentative explora...
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 ... Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman, and theA.O.C-in-C. Fighter Command, Air Marshal
H. C. Patch. In the morning the King—whodisplayed a deep and knowledgeable interest—
inspected a line of aircraft, comprising a deHavilland Comet 2, an English Electric Can-
berra, a Vickers Valiant, an Avro Vulcan, aBlackburn Beverley, a Hunting Percival Jet
Provost, and a D.H. Vampire T.ll. In theafternoon he saw a flying di...
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 ...13 FLIGHT, 27 October 1949
Accommodation, Cockpit Layout and Systems of de Havdtand's Pure-jet Airliner
GRADUALLY it becomes possible to describe the deHavilland Comet high-speed, jet-propelled transportaircraft in progressively greater detail, and though
performance and the more intimate features of construction
remain confidential, many gaps in a...
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 ...ing the full
Comet story.
The first of these to appear, written by an Australianjournalist in collaboration with the air correspondent of the
Daily Express, is a popular account of the history of the deHavilland Comet up to the implications of Lord Cohen's report
of the Inquiry. Inevitably, there is much over-simplification;not so inevitably, there are factual errors, mis-spellings, and
phrases li...
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 ...red the 6,070 statute
miles with one stop, at Khartoum, in a total elapsed time of18 hr 52 min. Flying time was 17 hr 24 min. The fastest civil
flight on record was made on July 17th-18th, 1951, by a deHavilland Comet 1, with Capt. Majendie in command. A distance
of 6,218 miles was covered in an elapsed time of 17 hr 33 min, witha chock-to-chock time (excluding stops at Cairo and Entebbe) of
14 hr...
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 ..., spares and flight
training schools. Send for colour
brochure or call, Blois Aviation,
Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, ^
Saxmundham, Suffolk. ^^^
Tel: (072877) 354 or *"H";
(0359) 40774. ^
FOR SALE
DEHAVILLAND COMET 4C
REGISTRATION, G-BDIX
Aircraft is in serviceable condition
and delivery flight can be arranged
to any destination worldwide.
For further details please contact:
\r\L--~ Alan ...
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 ...rovide excep-
tionally competitive fuel consumption and overhaul life. Thelatest of these transport Avons is the RA.29, which has a rated
thrust of 10,500 lb at 8,150 r.p.m., and is specified for the deHavilland Comet 4.
In view of the very high thrusts being achieved by late versionsof Avon, it is reasonable to assume that engine operating tempera-
tures are now considerably greater than they wer...
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 ...15 AUGUST 1952 FLIGHT 21
AM5
The 20.25 Comet from Khartoum...
...owes much to §
M&O. TRAOf MAMl
London to Khartoum in a day . . . Jo'burg in a day and
a night . . . that's what the jet age means...
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 ...»4 NOVEMBER 1952
AM5
FLIGHT ii
The 20.25 Comet from Khartoum...
...owes much to ™1M
REOD TRADE MARK
London to Khartoum in a day . . . Jo'burg in a day and
a night . . . that's what the jet age ...
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 ...FLIGHT, 29 December 1949
A new "aerial " of de Havilland's prototype four-Ghost Comet.
COMET DISCUSSION
Lines of Development : Sales Policy : Performance and Experience to Date
SEVERAL most important ...
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 ...FLIGHT, 6 November 1959 489
AIR COMMERCE . . .
B.E.A.'s
Comet 4B
Plans
ON APRIL I: JET SERVICE TO ATHENS, ISTANBUL, MOSCOW, MUNICH, ROME, WARSAW
THE official handing over of the first de Havilland Com...
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 ...flight, 2 September 1960
...IN ALL THESE ENGINES! BRISTOL SIDDELEY Olympus, Sapphire, Orpheus, Viper, Mamba,
Double Mamba, Proteus, Gamma, Thor. CURTIS-WRIGHT J65. DEHAVILLAND Goblin, Ghost, Gyron Jun...
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 ...Obsessive
Type~A
Achiever.
The deHavilland Dash 8™stops at
nothing to get the job done. Day in day out.
Year in year out.
But a Type-A Over-Achiever?
Understatement.The deHavilland Dash 8
flee...
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 ...Obsessive
Type~A
Achiever.
The deHavilland Dash 8™stops at
nothing to get the job done. Day in day out.
Year in year out.
But a Type-A Over-Achiever?
Understatement.The deHavilland Dash 8
flee...
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 ...Obsessive
Type~A
Achiever.
The deHavilland Dash 8™stops at
nothing to get the job done. Day in day out.
Year in year out.
But a Type-A Over-Achiever?
Understatement.The deHavilland Dash 8
flee...
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 ...AMD
per year. Add a dispatch reliability rating
that consistently exceeds 99% and ours is
a story of truly epic proportions.
There are no surprises in this story,
save the ease with which the de ...
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 ...When you're in the business of short hops, depend
on APC starter-generators for the long haul.
Daily multiple engine starts on commuter and business
aircraft demand starter-generators that won't le...
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