It was the world’s first commercial jet airliner ... But the de Havilland Comet’s success was short-lived. A fatal design flaw, hidden in plain sight, turned square windows into a deadly ...

However, this changed with the de Havilland Comet, the first jetliner ... for the Embraer Lineage 1000 jet. Windows are getting larger on larger commercial aircraft as well.

The Comet 1 airliner roared into the air— and into history—on 20,000 pounds of thrust from its four De Havilland Ghost jet engines. For the first time ever, a jet-propelled aircraft was ...