Britain last week decided to pin its jetliner hopes on the Comet. On the heels of a final report placing the blame for two Comet I crashes off Italy on metal fatigue, de Havilland announced that ...

Seen before leaving London airport for Paris in a comet jetliner this morning, Oct. 9, 1952, are from left, film director David Lean, his wife actress Ann Todd, Gwendoline Fellows, ...