But the de Havilland Comet’s success was short-lived. A fatal design flaw, hidden in plain sight, turned square windows into a deadly weakness. Cracks formed, pressure built, and tragedy followed.

In the event of an airplane accident, the flight recorder provides data that is invaluable for clarification. The device was ...

Members of Transformation House Church celebrated marriage at the de Havilland Aircraft Museum. The event, titled 'Love is in the air,' was organised by Kole Olagbaiye, who runs the Church's Marriage ...

A former reporter for the Comet and Welwyn Hatfield Times has died, aged 79. Born in Stanmore in October 1945, Bob Bryant moved to Hatfield in the early 1950s and grew up with his parents, where his ...

The luxury of the Golden Age of air travel is still alive and well in the first-class cabins of the world's leading airlines.

This timepiece, the GMT-Master (or GMT-Master II ), has proliferated through the zeitgeist to such an extent that even ...

In the 1950s, the British introduced the de Havilland Comet, the world’s first commercial jet airliner. It was a leap forward in aviation technology, faster and quieter than anything before it.

The age of jet-powered scheduled passenger air travel began in 1952 with the De Havilland Comet 1. However, a series of fatal crashes forced the plane to be grounded for modifications. Even though ...

There are many great things one can say about the De Havilland Comet, but the bad certainly outweighs the good. The Comet might have had a great run, but there were things that you can’t pass up like ...

Queen Elizabeth I's association with Hatfield House and the de Havilland Aircraft Company. Callum previously said: "I've wanted to make a documentary about my hometown for some time because I've ...