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De Havilland DH 106 Comet is a four-engine passenger jet airliner, developed by the British de Havilland company in the late 1940s. The world’s first commercial jet airplane.

Published on 3 Oct 2018

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Some good footage if quirky commentary and irritating adverts.

XS235 Canopus – fast taxi run at Bruntingthorpe Airfield 6th May 2012

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BEA de Havilland Comet 4B – 1959 Farnborough Classic Airliners 2 Aug 2009

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3B and BOAC de Havilland Comet 4C – 1958 Farnborough

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Quality poor

What happened to BOAC Flight 781

National Geographic account of the loss

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Poor CGI

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Longer version of above 48 min 39 sec

De Havilland Comet Jetliner Story by WTTW Chicago

The story of it’s destruction.

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Sad video 28 min 43 sec.

Dan Air Comet 4c a few scenes from movie Are You Being Served

G-APYD

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Movie based of Are You Being Served – The staff of Grace Bros. take a trip to Costa Plonka

Movie Dated 1977

Mexicana flight of 4C XA-NAS between Mexico City and Maracaibo, Venezuela
John Cunningham as Capt. Demonstration flight.

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Mexicana 4C XA-NAR
Nice footage of interior and fittings

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The Best Of British Aviation History – De Havilland Comet History

Joluqa Malta Published 22nd August 2015

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ONBOARD CAMS ON GIANT 1:7.2 SCALE RC de HAVILLAND COMET AIRLINER AT LMA RAF COSFORD – 2014

Amazing scale model of G-APDA Mk.4

 

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Promotional film for BEAs Comets

Joluqa Malta Published on 11 Dec 2012

 

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Two mysterious crashes in the Mediterranean near Rome. 56 people dead. The planes exploded in mid-air when their pressure cabins ruptured at the corners of the square windows. A hard lesson learned about pressurized airliners, square windows, and metal fatigue. But you haven’t heard the whole story. Find out what really happened in this first video in the series Aircrash Minority Report.

 

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Part 1. The Last ‘Flying’ Comet. The story of one man’s passion to restore the cockpit of one of the last remaining De Havilland Comets to full flight simulator status. Contact: last.flying.comet@btinternet.com

 

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Part 2. More from The Last ‘Flying’ Comet. In this episode Mike Pyment, aircraft engineer, ‘flies’ from London Heathrow to Southampton Airport in the Comet Mk4 simulator. In Part one we heard the original story of Mike’s passion to restore the cockpit of one of the last remaining De Havilland

 

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Part 3. More from The Last ‘Flying’ Comet. In this episode Mike Pyment, aircraft engineer, performs a manual approach and landing at Innsbruck Airport in the Comet Mk4 simulator. In Part one we heard the original story of Mike’s passion to restore the cockpit of one of the last remaining De Havilland Comet Mk4s to fully working flight simulator status.

 

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