The De Havilland Comet was the world's first jet-powered airliner, but the Jet Age really began with the debut of theBoeing 707 andDouglas DC-8 in the late 1950s. These aircraft were larger, more ...
The refinement of the fighter jet seems to have happened at a blistering pace. The world's first operative fighter jet was Germany's Messerschmitt Me 262, which took to the skies during the latter ...