"Spiv" wrote in message
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"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.
We are on about jets. Can't you focus for once?
I suggest you learn precision in communication, you
did not qualify your claim.
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
Can't you do anything right?
http://user.itl.net/~colonial/comet/history.html
On the 4th October 1958 two B.O.A.C. Comet 4s inaugurated the first
regular
transatlantic jet passenger service - another first for British
innovation.
But not non-stop, it had to stop in Newfoundland to refuel
while the 707 made the journey non stop.
I suggest you work on your reading skills.
Keith