The airline, then known as BOAC – or British Overseas Airways Corporation – piloted two de Havilland Comet 4s across the ocean on Oct. 4, 1958. One flew New York to London nonstop, while the ...

(Image credit: author) After three years of flight testing and trials, British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) Comet 1 G-ALYP flew the world’s first ever commercial airline service carrying ...

British Airways’ predecessor BOAC flew the first turbo jet engine aircraft – the British de Havilland Comet 4 – from New York to London and London to New York on October 4, 1958. Thorne ...

In fact, many of the passengers of BOAC were civil servants off to run the British Empire. Getty Images The Comet was first rolled out of a hangar near Hatfield, north of London, in 1949 (Credit ...

A BOAC advert from May 1952 noted how the Comet was 'quiet and free from vibration'. After the success of the Johannesburg flight, Her Majesty The Queen - who had only been on the throne for a ...

Then, two months later, a year to the day after the inaugural flight, a BOAC Comet with 43 passengers and crew disintegrated at 10,000 feet after leaving Calcutta in a heavy thunderstorm.

On Saturday, May 2, 1952, the world's first jetliner service began commercial operations when a British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) De Havilland Comet passenger jet, registration G-ALYP ...

Operated by South African Airways, a partner of BOAC, the Comet Yoke Yoke was on its regular scheduled flight from London to Johannesburg. Barely 16 days had elapsed since BOAC lifted the ban that ...

British Airways’ predecessor BOAC flew the first turbo jet engine aircraft – the British de Havilland Comet 4 – from New York to London and London to New York on October 4, 1958. Thorne ...

World traveler: Thorne loved being on board the inaugural New York-London flight, but she says it wasn't her favorite route. "I used to try and stay on the Tokyo-Australia line, b ...