Charles Lindberg's first transatlantic flight was between which two cities?
Transatlantic flight April 1954 after four Comets crashed, the last two being BOAC aircraft at altitude. Later jet airliners including the larger and longer-range Comet 4 were designed to be fail-safe: in the event of for example a skin-failure due to cracking the damage would be localized and not catastrophic. On 4 October 1958, BOAC started transatlantic flights between London Heathrow and New York Idlewild with a Comet 4, and Pan Am followed on 26 October with a Boeing 707 service between New York and Paris. Supersonic flights on the Concorde were offered from 1976 to 2003, from London (by British Airways)
Transatlantic flight to bring the smaller aircraft to operational height, at which time the two aircraft would separate, the carrier aircraft returning to base while the other flew on to its destination. The Short Mayo Composite project, co-designed by Mayo and Shorts chief designer Arthur Gouge, comprised the "Short S.21 Maia", ("G-ADHK") which was a variant of the Short "C-Class" Empire flying-boat fitted with a trestle or pylon on the top of the fuselage to support the "Short S.20 Mercury"("G-ADHJ"). The first successful in-flight separation of the "Composite" was carried out on 6 February 1938, and the first transatlantic flight was made