First Jet Airliner Was "Nice To Handle"
Itifeivecl TUurbday, 6.45 p.m. LOisDON, july 28. Tlie world 's flrst coiuplete jet airliner, the de Havijlaud Comet, was jast evepiug taken up to 8000 feet ahd flown above a ejond layer for 31 mimites by (.Ti'oup Captain Jplin Cuuninghani. He afterwards reported tliat the Comet wgs C very nice tq handie, ' ' Sir Frank . VV'hittle, inventor of jet engines i'or wliich the Government awjrrded hira £100;Q00 . tax free, said: ''This is my dream conie true. Here is a jet airliner eapable of operating a passenger service across the Atlantic in four hours."
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Chronicle (Levin), 29 July 1949, Page 8
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