de Havilland Aeronautical Technical School Association

The Comet 3 World Tour 1955

In December 1955 the sole flying Comet 3, G-ANLO, undertook a world tour in order to promote the Comet 4. The tour was reported in the de Havilland Gazette of February 1956. The cover and the relevant pages are reproduced here by kind permission of BAE Systems. Pylon 2025 includes an article about the tour, including some things not mentioned in Gazette.

Published: 15 Oct 2025

Author: Roger de Mercado

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