Commercial jet airliner (Comet, Boeing 707)
Avión comercial a reacción (De Havilland Comet, Boeing 707)
- Date
- 1949-1958 · confidence high
- Place
- De Havilland, Hatfield, United Kingdom (Comet, 1949); Boeing, Seattle, United States (707, 1958)
- Credited to
- De Havilland (Ronald Bishop); Boeing (Bill Allen, Maynard Pennell)
- Field
- Movement
What it is
Jet-powered passenger aircraft that doubled the speed and altitude of flight. The Comet's fatigue-related accidents taught the industry fuselage engineering; the 707 made transatlantic flight routine.
What it led to
- Mass tourism and the globalisation of people
- The jet age: airports, international hotels and jet-set culture
- Fatigue engineering of materials
Built on
Made possible
- Boeing 747 and the high-bypass turbofan1969
- Concorde supersonic airliner1969
- international tourism
- air freight