From Start to Finish
When you think of commercial aviation do you think of the design and technology put into the large aircrafts you see taking you from one country to another? If you choose yes, you are correct. Commercial aviation has gone a long way. When you go to an airport and look at these gigantic planes what do you think? How could they build such large planes! Well the answer is experience and technology. Commercial aircrafts have started many years ago. Though the aircrafts were commercial they are not necessary airlines. Most of which being private companies.
In August of 1910 was the first civilian commercial flight. It was an experimental flight from Blackpool. Another attempt in 1911 had the first scheduled air mail service flying between London and Windsor flying a Farman biplane, and a Bleriot monoplane. This only had lasted 3 weeks. No further attempts at civilian commercial aviation occurred before the First World War in 1914. Through the end of the war in 1917, The Royal Flying Corps flew across the channel for VIP’s and mail using two De Havilland DH.4’s, becoming the first actual airplane for airlines.
The Jet Age had finally come. The 1950’s is a major breakthrough in commercial aviation, the first turboprop airliner and the very first jet airliner had aroused, the De Havilland Comet 1. Though the Jet Age had come, many airliners had not changed their propeller planes in exchange of jet planes. The Jet Age had come to a very bad start. Four of the De Havilland Comet 1?s had been destroyed, two of which landing, one in a thunderstorm, and one breaking apart taking off. After that incident, the Comet 1 was permanently grounded. That year also carried on Boeings 707, Douglas? DC8, and Tupelovs 104. October of 1958, is the first jet service across the North Atlantic by the Comet 4.
