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Comet

The World's First Commercial Jet Airliner
  • ISBN-13: 9781915343567
  • Publisher: SONA BOOKS
    Imprint: SONA BOOKS
  • By Bruce Hales-Dutton
  • Price: AUD $54.99
  • Stock: 23 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 01/09/2024
  • Format: Hardback (270.00mm X 210.00mm) 144 pages Weight: 600g
  • Categories: History: theory & methods [HBA]
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It was a sensation! The World’s first jet airliner flew for the first time barely four years after the end of the Second World War...and it was British. It revolutionised commercial air travel. It was the fastest airliner in the World and it inspired a post-war public with its pioneering jet engines and sleek design. Star-struck celebrities and royalty flew in it. The World’s airlines were queuing up to order. And then triumph turned to tragedy. Packed with rare and unseen images and memorabilia, Comet delves into this amazing aircraft from the dark days of WW2 when it was conceived by Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, through its design and manufacture and introduction to service with BOAC amid cheering and flag waving. It covers in depth the tragic Comet crashes, the exhaustive work done on solving the crash mysteries and its successful reincarnation, both for civil airlines and for the military, as the Comet 4 and eventually the RAF’s Nimrod, the ultimate and final variant of the Comet design. This book also gives the reader a flavour of the excitement of air travel in the 1950s and provides an invaluable reference work to every Comet built.
Bruce Hales-Dutton’s professional involvement in aviation goes back a long way. Having started as a newspaper journalist in the 1960s he became a senior press officer at the Department of Trade and Industry, a role which involved him in the development of major news stories such as the start of Concorde services to North America and the debate about London’s third airport. Later he moved to the British Airports Authority as a media relations specialist and then to the Civil Aviation Authority. He was the CAA’s head of public relations when he retired in 2000.
* Features many previously unseen images from a range of archives including in flight material and accident investigation documents. * Includes a complete reference work to all the Comets built. * Illustrated with more than 150 original photographs. * Written by experienced aviation expert and author, Bruce Hales-Dutton.




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