De Havilland Comet Jet Airliner in 1949...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York City, New York, July 28, 1949  

* De Havilland Comet jet airliner...  
* 1st commercial airplane jet flight...  1st report (historic aviation feat)...  

This 46 page newspaper has a two line, two column headline on page 6: "500 M.P.H. Jet Airliner Is Tested by British; 36-Passenger Craft Will Fly at 40,000 Feet" Tells of the maiden flight of De Havilland Comet which was the first commercial jet airliner ever produced. Other news of the day found throughout. Rag edition, in great condition.

Wikipedia: The Britishde Havilland Comet first flew in 1949 and is noted as the world's first commercial jet airliner to reach production. The Avro Ashton and the Vickers VC.1 Viking had flown earlier but were experimental models. Early models suffered from catastrophic metal fatigue and the aircraft was redesigned. The Comet 4 series subsequently enjoyed a long and productive career of over 30 years. The Hawker Siddeley Nimrod, the military derivative of the Comet airliner, is still in service. In 2007, the original decades-old airframes were being rebuilt with new wings and engines to produce the Nimrod MRA 4, expected to serve with Britain's Royal Air Force until the 2020s, more than 70 years after the Comet's first flight.