Thanks to the decline of sea travel, Boston quickly became one of the country’s most important hubs for air travel.

The de Havilland Comet, introduced in 1949, was more than just an aircraft - it was a game-changer for air travel. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the British government sought to maintain ...

"In a day and a half, the comet has flown over 14 countries, travelled over half way round the world, and cut what until this morning was an 86-hour journey, into a 36-hour one." The BOAC Comet ...

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC.

On March 1, 1960, British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) first began serving Toronto, with a Comet 4 service from Heathrow. Later that year BOAC began operating a Boeing 707 twice weekly from ...

Hot on the tail of the Quadrantids meteor shower, another spectacle in the sky is about to arrive: comet Atlas C/2024 G3, which will reach perihelion—the point of its orbit closest to the sun ...

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 ...

In front of mammoth Hangar 10 at Washington’s National Airport last week, the First Lady of the U.S. smashed a bottle of water from the seven seas on the fuselage of a Pan American Boeing 707 ...

The "comet of the century" Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS has been delighting stargazers after reaching its closest point to Earth in more than 80,000 years over the weekend. The brightest ...

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is nearing Earth and getting brighter. By Katrina Miller Katrina Miller last wrote about a comet — Pons-Brooks — in April. Look up, stargazers: A comet discovered last ...

DALLAS — Today, in 1958, British Overseas Aircraft Corporation (BOAC) launched the world's first jet-powered transatlantic flight. Using the de Havilland Comet 4, BOAC beat rival Pan American to the ...

Owing to the lengthy transit across dry places and frequent stops in oasis-like desert locations, the tediously long journey with the post-war British Overseas Airways Corporation, or BOAC ...