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.

It's easy to get on a plane and jet off to wherever ... After the de Havilland Comet disasters — of which there were three fatal incidents — windows with rounded edges were implemented.

Airplane windows are designed ... The de Havilland Comet, the world’s first commercial jetliner introduced in 1952, had square windows. By 1954, multiple catastrophic crashes revealed a fatal ...

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 ...