Description The world got a little smaller in July 1949 when the first jet-powered airliner took to the skies barely four years after the end of the Second World War.
Not only was the de Havilland Comet 1 was a lot faster than previous airliners, it could fly higher and further.
It was packed with new technology but, perhaps most importantly for those early passengers, it was a quiet, luxurious and even pleasant experience, something that could never be said for the noisy piston-e.
Air World De havilland comet: the world's first commercial jetliner, paperback/colin higgs
