Yes, I speak English quite well- but nowhere in that article does it mention any US institution giving aid or subsidies of any kind to Airbus.

Either we’re talking about two different articles or you’re mistaken.

With all due respect, shut up!

Come on now – there’s no need to be rude to folk is there?

Perhaps this is what’s upsetting people rather than the content of your postings, hmm?

Here’s a pretty basic one, but Google should help you track down more.

http://www.aerosite.net/caravelle.htm

Yes, the Caravelle has the nose of a Comet – not just similar, but identical.

This “graft” was a short-cut that enabled Sud Aviation to begin “expermental” Air France flights as planned in 1956.

BTW – talking of Caravelles……… which airline made the first regular scheduled revenue-earning international flight with the Caravelle? 😎

Whatever was I thinking??? Caravelle indeed………… 😮

Second place quite rightly goes to the Avro Jetliner.

Thanks for correcting my shameful error, Papa Lima.

Errr… the 747 didn’t see light until around 10 to 12 years after the Dash 80 took flight.

No, not the B747 – the B47 Stratojet. 6-engine jet bomber with podded engines on a narrow swept back wing. See the picture…..

The Comet made her last commercial revenue flight, with Dan-Air as you correctly said, but in 1980.

Remember also that the basic design is still in military service as the Nimrod, demonstrating the robustness of the original design after all these years. The same is, of course, true of the Dash 80/707..

The goal in commercial avaition is to make a profit, not be first. Few aircarft have done both.

True words, but the fact remains that the DH Comet 1 was the first jet airliner to take to the skies – beating the Caravelle by a matter of days.

Less commonly recognised now is that the first revenue-earning trans-Atlantic flight by a jet airliner was made by a Comet 4 of BOAC.

Ahhh – the days when we had an aircraft industry 😎

And when did the De Havilland Comet fly for the first time?

July 1949, wasn’t it? :confused: