de Havilland

de Havilland
(1882–1965)
a British aircraft designer whose company produced many of Britain’s best-known aircraft. He started the company after designing planes in World War I, and it produced the Mosquito figher plane during World War II and then the Comet, the world’s first passenger jet plane. He was made a knight in 1944. His company is now part of BAE Systems.

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