Hatfield , England : The De Havilland Aircraft Company 's " Comet " jet-propelled airliner - in which there is hope of retrieving the leeway lost in the war when Britain concentrated on combat aircraft - is wheeled out of the factory here for the first time. This latest experiment in aviation history - the Comet - being the only fully-jet airliner in the world - is powered by four de Havilland " Ghost " jet engines , and it is expected to cruise at almost 500 miles an hour - the London-Sydney journey , for instance , will take 36 hours. The plane , carrying 36 passengers and a crew of four

Hatfield , England : The De Havilland Aircraft Company 's " Comet " jet-propelled airliner - in which there is hope of retrieving the leeway lost in the war when Britain concentrated on combat aircraft - is wheeled out of the factory here for the first time. This latest experiment in aviation history - the Comet - being the only fully-jet airliner in the world - is powered by four de Havilland " Ghost " jet engines , and it is expected to cruise at almost 500 miles an hour - the London-Sydney journey , for instance , will take 36 hours. The plane , carrying 36 passengers and a crew of four Stock Photo

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Hatfield , England : The De Havilland Aircraft Company 's " Comet " jet-propelled airliner - in which there is hope of retrieving the leeway lost in the war when Britain concentrated on combat aircraft - is wheeled out of the factory here for the first time. This latest experiment in aviation history - the Comet - being the only fully-jet airliner in the world - is powered by four de Havilland " Ghost " jet engines , and it is expected to cruise at almost 500 miles an hour - the London-Sydney journey , for instance , will take 36 hours. The plane , carrying 36 passengers and a crew of four , will fly at a height of 40, 000 feet. Group Captain John Cunningham, De Havilland 's chief test pilot , lifted the giant jet-liner a few feet from the ground for about five hundred yards during the taxi-ing tests.27 July 1949

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