Comet Collection

De Havilland Aircraft Company Poster
Poster, De Havilland Aircraft Company, From Mildenhall to Melbourne in 70 Hours 59 Minutes winning the Worlds Greatest Race

The Blue Comet train
The Blue Comet, an all-steel passenger train than ran between New Jersey and Atlantic City from 1929 to 1941 on the Central Railroad of New Jersey. Date: c. 1930s

Halleys Comet as it appeared in 1910
The course of Halleys Comet across the night sky through April and May, 1910. The next predicted perihelion of Halleys Comet is 28 July 2061 Date: 1910

The de Havilland DH106 Comet first prototype G-5-1
The de Havilland DH106 Comet first prototype, G-5-1 (later registered G-ALVG) with the third de Havilland DH108, VW120, at Hatfield, 27 July 1949. Date: 1949

The first de Havilland DH106 Comet 4B, G-APMA Sir Edmund Halley, of BEA

Major Frank Bernard Halford CBE FRAeS (1894-1955)
Major Frank Bernard Halford, CBE, FRAeS, 1894-1955, President of the Royal Aeronautical Society 1951 to 1952, in front of the prototype de Havilland Comet airliner. Date: 1955

Halford, Whittle, de Havilland and Walker
From left: Major Frank Halford, Sir Frank Whittle, Sir Geoffrey de Havilland and C.C. Walker in front of the first prototype de Havilland Comet airliner

The first de Havilland DH106 Comet 4 G-APDA of BOAC
The first de Havilland DH106 Comet 4, G-APDA, of BOAC, at Hatfield on the day of its first flight, 27 April 1958. Date: 1958

Poster advertising Middle East Airlines
Poster advertising MEA, Middle East Airlines, with flights on the Comet 4C

Cover of brochure for the de Havilland Comet

De Havilland Comet 4C G-ARJL BEA Airtours London Gatwick
De Havilland Comet 4C G-ARJL of BEA Airtours at London Gatwick in 1972 Date: 1972

Comet airliner (first in service). BOAC. c.1949 Date: circa 1949

Heidelberg Comet 1618
A comet seen over Heidelberg Date: 1618

The crew of the first Comet 4 (G-APDC) service to New York on 4 October 1958. Capt. J.B. Linton (extreme left front row), Capt. Roy Millichap (centre front row) and Capt

Advert, Surbiton and Kingston Laundry, Surrey
Advert, Surbiton and Kingston Laundry, Alfred Road, Spring Grove, Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey Date: 1897

Comet August 1921
The Earth passes through the tail of an unknown comet, with spectacular aerial effects

Winchester Comet of 1811
A comet of 1811 as seen at daybreak on October 15th from Otterbourne Hill, Winchester Date: 1811

De Havilland Comet 4 G-APDA starboard engines BOAC LAP 1958
De Havilland Comet 4 G-APDA close up of starboard engines at London Airport in 1958 Date: 1958

The third de Havilland DH88 Comet G-ACSS Grosvenor House
The third de Havilland DH88 Comet, G-ACSS, Grosvenor House

The second de Havilland DH88 Comet G-ACSR ready for flight
The second de Havilland DH88 Comet, G-ACSR, ready for flight test just before dark following the pre-race accident

The first de Havilland DH88 Comet G-ACSP Black Magic
The first de Havilland DH88 Comet, G-ACSP, Black Magic, for the Mollisons at Mildenhall

De Havilland Comet 1956
The Comet is the first commercial jet-liner, carrying 36 passengers at 800 km/h, half as fast again as any other airliner currently in commercial service

Grandville / Comet
The peregrinations of a comet

de Havilland DH106 Comet 1A of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF)

De Havilland Comet aeroplane
The De Havilland " Comet" aeroplane, a racing monoplane seating two, with duplicated controls. Date: circa 1936

Polar Sky with Bears
POLAR SKY with aerial phenomena above an arctic sea, polar bears and icebergs

Tank / Comet Cruiser
A British Vickers-Armstrong Comet Cruiser tank undergoes tests

DAN-AIR de Havilland Comet 4C G-APDN at Gatwick Airport. DAN-AIR started life as Davies and Newman Airlines after the two founders

Messerschmitt Me-163 Komet
Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Me-163 Komet Parked at an Airshow in May 1950 Date: 1950

Messerschmitt Me-163B-1A Komet
A Captured Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Me-163B-1A Komet on Public Static-Display Possibly in Hyde Park, London, As Flown by Test-Pilot Captain Eric Melrose Winkle Brown, Cbe, Dsc, Afc, Fraes

Funeral procession for the victims of BOAC Flight 781 / de Havilland Comet G-ALYP, through the streets of Porto Azuro, Elba, on 14 January 1954. Date: 1954

Messerschmitt Me-163C Komet
Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Me-163 V6 Komet Prototype (For C-Series) During Engine Start-Up / Anlassen Date: 1940s

A Comet tank, (Tank, Cruiser, Comet I (A34)), at the 2006 Larkhill Royal Artillery open day, on the Larkhill racecourse / exhibition ground. Date: 2006

Mildenhall Aerodrome - MacRobertson Trophy London to Melbourne Air Race - taken on the 18th October 1934

Clyde Cessna with his monoplane The Comet, lauded as the first aeroplane with cantilever wings in the United States. Date: 1917

de Havilland DH. 106 Comet 4C XS235 Canopus
A&AEE - de Havilland DH.106 Comet 4C XS235 Canopus (msn 6473). (A&AEE - Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment) Date: circa 1990

de Havilland DH. 106 Comet 4B G-APMB
de Havilland DH.106 Comet 4B G-APMB (msn 06422), of BEA Date: circa 1965

de Havilland DH. 106 Comet 1 7610M - G-ALYT
de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 7610M / G-ALYT (msn 6006). ex BOAC, on the apron at RAF Halton airfield, for use by apprentices as an instructional airframe. Date: 1957

de Havilland DH. 106 Comet C. 2 XK697
Royal Air Force - de Havilland DH.106 Comet C.2 XK697 (msn 06032), of no.216 Squadron. Date: circa 1965

de Havilland DH. 106 Comet 4C LV-AHS
de Havilland DH.106 Comet 4C LV-AHS Alborada (msn 6432), formerly of Aerolineas Argentina, at Lasham with Dan-Air Engineering, in December 1971

The Comet
A painting which depicts some kind of celestial spirit, or being, female in nature, her face is warped among the swirling sky. Date: circa 1917

Invalids at the Grotto of the Apparition, Lourdes, France Date: 1897

Meteor shower orbit prediction
The Leonids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Temple??Tuttle, which are also known for their spectacular meteor storms that occur about every 33 years

The Comet, the first commercial steamboat in Europe Date: early 19th century

Boeing C-135A Stratolifter 60-0378
United States Air Force (USAF) - Boeing C-135A-BN Stratolifter 60-0378 (MSN 18153), on the ramp having number 3 engine replaced

Grosvenor House De Havilland Comet designed for England-Australia Air Race, October 1934 Date: 1937

Raymond Baxter interviewing Captain James Linton A. F. C
Raymond Baxter interviewing Captain James Linton A.F.C, a BOAC Comet pilot: discussing the recent introduction of the de Havilland Comet and Boeing 707 on trans-Atlantic airline routes

de Havilland DH. 106 Comet 2 7610M (ex G-ALYT)
de Havilland DH.106 Comet 2 7610M (msn 06006, ex G-ALYT), the prototype Comet 2, on the airfield at RAF Halton. This aircraft flew in to Halton, which has a relatively small grass airfield

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