The Second Passenger Jet

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I was browsing through the Ed Coates Collection when I came across a photo of an aircraft I had not heard of, and I wouldn't be surprised if many of you had not heard of it either. It was beaten out of being the worlds first jet passenger aircraft to fly by just 13 days, by the de Havilland Comet.

 

The aircraft was the Avro Canada C-102 Jetliner. Read more here:

 

http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ac4/CF-EJD-X.html

 

Further details on Wikipedia.

 

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[willedoo]

Interesting link, thanks Peter. Shame it never got a chance to go into service, certainly an opening for it at that time.

 

The third jetliner to fly, the French Sud Caravelle seems to have been a bit slow off the mark, taking four years to reach certification. The fourth to fly, the Tupolev Tu-104, beat the Sud into service by almost three years. With all the problems of the Comet, there would surely have been a market for the C-102.

 

Cheers, Willie.