num_pages: 200
description: The de Havilland DH.106 Comet was the world's first pure-jet airliner. Powered by four de Havilland Ghost turbojet engines and accommodating its passengers in a pressurized cabin the Comet offered new levels of speed comfort and smoothness to the air traveler when it entered service with BOAC in 1952.
language: English
title: De Havilland Comet
publisher: The Crowood Press UK