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Jet Age | 1952
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- Album Royal Airways
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Airline - Royal Imperial Air Company
Aircraft - DeHavilland DH.106 Comet 1 | G-ADCB
Delivered to the Royal Imperial Air Company, 1952
Stored at Bruntingthorpe, 1963
Scrapped at Bruntingthorpe, 1966
Livery - Standard 1947
Country - Great Britain
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Airline - Royal Imperial Air Company
Aircraft - Avro Type 685 York | G-ADKG
Delivered to the Royal Imperial Air Company, 1945
Sold to Anglo-Argentine Airways, 1961
Crashed in Bahia Plata, Argentina, 1966
Livery - Standard 1947
Country - Great Britain
In 1952, RIAC took delivery of its first Comet 1, bringing it into the jet age. In fact, the first scheduled commercial jet-powered flight (apart from the testing flights flown by Avro Nene Lancastrians a few years prior) was flown by this exact plane for RIAC, operating the afternoon service from London to Copenhagen. G-ADCB is shown here with rectangular windows. All Comets in the fleet were retrofitted to have oval windows after the Comet disasters of 1954.
Shown below is D-ADKG, the Avro York which has already been featured in this album, but I wanted to show it in the 1947 livery because of how much I like the York.
