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de Havilland Comet Key Publishing In the latter half of World War Two, the War Cabinet sanctioned the formation of a committee to consider a post-war world of air transport. They, rightly, placed…
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In the latter half of World War Two, the War Cabinet sanctioned the formation of a committee to consider a post-war world of air transport. They, rightly, placed piston-engines - which were quite advanced at the time - at the forefront but made a case for the gas-turbine. The committee, headed by John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, the first man in Britain to hold a private pilot's license, had the foresight to embrace an emerging method of propulsion: gas-turbine or jet engine technology.
This was a very brave move from de Havilland and one that gave Britain the lead over the rest of the world. This enabled Geoffrey de Havilland and Ronald Bishop to begin building a pure-jet airliner to be powered by engines designed by Frank Halford. The de Havilland DH106 Comet aircraft made history as the first jet airliner to fly and as the first to offer a scheduled jet passenger service. Even
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