IT was a larger plane with 10 years of the Comet before it to fall back
on.
The world's first transatlantic service was by the Comet not the 707.

Wrong, the pressurised Boeing Stratocruiser and Lockheed
Constellations were running transatlantic services before either
Comet or the 707. The Comet IV lacked the range to fly the
Atlantic non stop and the first jet non stop service was launched
in August 1959 using the Boeing 727-320


Better
plane? The Nimrod, which still fly's today, is a "Comet".


As does the 707 which is the basis for the Boeing E-3
sentry and the JSTARS aircraft

Keith