de Havilland Comet
First commercial jet airliner
Episodes
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#4678: How the Chicago Convention Built the Modern SkyHow 52 nations in 1944 created the firewall between military and civilian aviation that still governs every flight today. -
#2733: Did the Airplane Actually Kill the Train?The airplane didn't shrink the railways — the car did. Here's the real story of how we learned to move. -
#2236: Metal at Forty Thousand FeetCould 1903 metallurgy have built a plane to fly at 40,000 feet? The answer reveals how materials science, not aerodynamics, was aviation's deepest ...