"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?

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.


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



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