Proudly, Britain’s De Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd. last week announced delivery of the last of nine Comet I jet airliners to British Overseas Airways Corp. By early 1953, BOAC hopes to have the fleet ...

Long before the arrival of high-bypass, fuel-efficient turbofan engines, aviation relied on what might seem like an unusual trick.

A short while ago, we told the story of the Boeing 757, pound-for-pound the most overpowered twin-jet passenger airliner of the jet age of aviation. It was and still is the kind of jet that can ...