"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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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


I think you are screwed up on your airplane designations. Sure it wasn't a
707-320? The Boeing 727 series was a much later series. On the
Trans-Atlantic runs I remember crossing on the DC-6/C-118 airplanes long
before 1959. Don't leave Douglas out, please.

Tex Houston