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In their first year, Comets carried 30,000 passengers. As the aircraft could be profitable with a load factor as low as 43 per cent, commercial success was expected. [27] The Ghost engines allowed the Comet to fly above weather that competitors had to fly through.
First airplane passenger: was Léon Delagrange, with pilot Henri Farman, on March 29, 1908. [45] First use of the modern aircraft flight control system: was in the Blériot VIII, which took to the air with Robert Esnault-Pelterie's control layout, using a joystick for pitch and roll control, and a foot-bar for lateral control, in April 1908 ...
The first jet aircraft designed from the outset for supersonic flight was the British Fairey Delta 2. On March 10, 1956, it became the first aircraft to fly faster than 1,000 miles per hour, heralding an era of "fast jets" typically limited to a speed of Mach 2.2 by the engineering materials available.
A 1958 Soviet stamp marking the Tu-104 as the world's first passenger jet liner, showing routes Czechoslovak Airlines Tu-104A at Kbely Aviation Museum, Prague. On 15 September 1956, the Tu-104 began revenue service on Aeroflot's Moscow-Omsk-Irkutsk route, replacing the Ilyushin Il-14.
The Caravelle belongs to the first generation of passenger aircraft to use newly developed jet propulsion technology, and it was the first jet airliner developed specifically for the short/medium-range sector of the market.
The de Havilland Comet, the first purpose-built jet airliner The Boeing 707, the first commercially successful jetliner. The first purpose-built jet airliner was the British de Havilland Comet which first flew in 1949 and entered service in 1952 with BOAC. It carried 36 passengers up to 2500 miles (4000 km) at a speed of 450mph (725 km/h).
Concorde was the first airliner to have a fly-by-wire flight-control system (in this case, analogue); the avionics system Concorde used was unique because it was the first commercial aircraft to employ hybrid circuits. [69] The principal designer for the project was Pierre Satre, with Sir Archibald Russell as his deputy. [70]
The 747's first flight took place on February 9, 1969, and the 747 was certified in December of that year. It entered service with Pan Am on January 22, 1970. The 747 was the first airplane called a "Jumbo Jet" as the first wide-body airliner.