"Cub Driver" wrote:
| DeHavilland Comet (the first jet airliner, marking a new era in
| civilian transport)
|
| Carried too few passengers at too high a cost. It was the Concorde of
| its day, without the longevity. A conceptual dead end.

"longevity"
The RAF's HS.801 Nimrod was a Comet 4C conversion.