"ANDREW ROBERT BREEN" wrote in message
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In article .net,
Steven P. McNicoll wrote:

"ANDREW ROBERT BREEN" wrote in message
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Strictly speaking, it wasn't: that honour goes to the Vickers
Nene Viking. Comet I was, however, the first into commercial
service (the Nene Viking being more in the nature of a trial run).

Did the Nene Viking ever carry a passenger? As I recall, the Viking
served

Honestly not sure - never carried fare-paying passengers, f'sure.

as a Nene engine testbed only and reverted to piston engines after it had
served that purpose. That doesn't sound like a jet airliner to me.

shrugs OK, first airliner to be powered by jet engines, if
you prefer. The Viking was certainly an airliner and the Nenes
were certainly jets,

Which makes it a jet airliner.

so whether or not the resulting combination
was intended for service as passenger-carrier or as a testbed
for the engine there's a touch of "airliner+jet" about it,

I would say a lot. Airliner with jet engines, is a jet airliner.

whichever way you re-arrange the words. The Avro Tudor V
probably falls into the same box (though, unusually for a Tudor,
not very hard).

Comet was the first one to fly commercially, though. Tu-104
probably the second (don't think Canadair C-102 ever carried
fare-paying passengers).

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