What they said

It was the Concorde of its day–it flew higher, faster, smoother than any other airline of that time and made everything else obsolete Alistair Hodgson, curator of the de Havilland Aircraft Museum in Hertfordshire To arrive without the feeling of having travelled de Havilland publicity brochure for the Comet The Comet jet airliner was the most spectacular aircraft ever built. Its failure was equally spectacular ‘The Comet Riddle’ by W. A. Waterton and Timothy Hewat