The shape of airplane windows might seem arbitrary, but there's actually a somber reason behind their design, according to ...

It would get the opportunity to try to do just that in February 1945, when it was contracted to create the Type 106, eventually to be known as the Comet jet. As there had never been an aircraft ...

The Comet 1A has been moved inside the new £3m hangar at the De Havilland Museum at Salisbury Hall The last surviving example of a plane with a window design that contributed to fatal crashes has ...

The position of the comet in space at any time depends on five quantities which are called the elements of the orbit. The plane of the comet orbit in space is defined by itsrelation with respect ...

Some viewers surmised that Captain Steve (pictured) referred to the UK’s ill-fated de Havilland Comet 1 Aircraft, which experienced a spate of inflight disintegrations between 1953 and 1954.