Airdate: The De Havilland Comet

Heads up aviation aficionados, tomorrow History screens a throw-back to the world’s first commercial jet airliner, The De Havilland Comet.

This riveting one-hour special steps back into one of the more intriguing stories in aviation history. The word’s first commercial jet airliner looked like putting Great Britain at the head of the race for dominance of the skies, until a deadly series of failures in the early 1950s plagued its progress.

Updated: Foxtel advises the broadcast is delayed due to technical errors.