“We have got the taps right open”. So read one of the radio messages passed from British Overseas Airways Corporation DH Comet 4 G-APDB to a sister aircraft as they made the first commercial jet flight across the Atlantic, between New York and London, 60 years ago — and injected new hope into the troubled Comet story
“We have got the taps right open”. So read one of the radio messages passed from British Overseas Airways Corporation DH Comet 4 G-APDB to a sister aircraft as they made the first commercial jet flight across the Atlantic, between New York and London, 60 years ago — and injected new hope into the troubled Comet story
22nd May 2025
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