An early-model BOAC Comet jet disintegrated in mid‑air after encountering severe turbulence shortly after departure from Dum Dum Airport near Calcutta on 2 May 1953. All 43 passengers and crew ...

L ondon Heathrow Airport (LHR) has long been one of the powerhouse airports in Europe. Since its humble beginnings as a ...

The Common Multi-Mission Truck-X (CMMT-X) completed the captive-carry flight on an airborne testbed within the last few weeks and the first free flight test will follow “soon,” Skunk Works General ...

Among other things, black boxes will aid understanding of what happened between the takeoff and the crash in the next few ...

The aircraft, on its Singapore-London flight, made a perfect take-off for Delhi at 4.30pm. The plane, according to all available reports, was caught in a storm and exploded mid-air.

As firefighting and rescue teams work on the spot of the Air India crash, a deeper look into the reason behind it will likely be clear from a small box sitting in a corner of the aircraft - the black ...

The throng of spectators, including famed airplane designer Sir Geoffrsey de Havilland, heard the earsplitting shriek before they saw the sleek, bullet-shaped aircraft burst out of the mist and ...

I got up close to the legendary de Havilland Comet – the world’s first commercial jet airliner – and experienced the thunder of its old-school Rolls-Royce Avon engines. In this video, I dive ...

There is a legitimate safety reason as to why airplanes require round windows instead of square ones, ... and with the de Havilland Comet jet plane, two flights in 1954 turned deadly, ...

Members of a Hertfordshire drugs gang who dropped cocaine packages from a small aircraft have been for a total of 47 years. Four members of the gang were sentenced at St Albans Crown Court last ...

The replica DH.88 Comet replica under construction at Mandeville. Photo: Croydon Aircraft Co. Peter Owens Wed, 26 Jul 2023. Southland’s Croydon Aircraft Co at Mandeville has a world-wide reputation ...

A comet that has taken astronomers by surprise could shine as brightly as Venus in the night sky as it passes by Earth over the next few days. Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) was spotted in April last ...