De Havilland’s Race to Australia and the Birth of the Mosquito
One of Geoffrey de Havilland’s most important pre-war aircraft designs was the revolutionary DH88 Comet, a twin-engined racing monoplane that won the prestigious MacRobertson England to Australia air...
View ArticleAmy Johnson’s de Havilland Aviation Adventures
Amy Johnson achieved fame through her astonishing record-breaking flights, many completed in de Havilland aircraft. In 1934 de Havilland entered three DH88 Comets in the MacRobertson England to...
View ArticleDe Havilland’s Australian Air Races
Geoffrey de Havilland’s Australian aviation adventures may have been capped when his revolutionary DH88 Comet racing monoplane won the 1934 MacRobertson England to Australia air race, but this was just...
View ArticleThe de Havilland Comet Air Disasters Revealed
On 27 July 1949 de Havilland’s chief test pilot, John Cunningham, took the Comet prototype out on its maiden flight. The aircraft took-off from Hatfield Aerodrome and flew for 31 minutes with Harold...
View Articlede Havilland Comet, tragic and heroic, the world’s first jet airliner
The de Havilland Comet was the world’s first jet airliner and the first to operate a jet-powered transatlantic service. The Comet began carrying passengers on 2 May 1952, when BOAC introduced the...
View ArticleDuxford Revisited – Old Footage from Duxford Air Display
A compilation of some old footage from a visit to an air display at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford back in 2009 that was thought to have been lost. I found some old tapes in the archive, which...
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