Jet Airliners
Commercial passenger aircraft powered by jet engines for faster, longer-range, high-capacity air transport.
Core metadata
- ID: jet_airliners
- Era: Modern
- First known date: 1952 (exact)
- Region: United Kingdom
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: established
Prerequisites
- Advanced Materials Science (advanced_materials_science)
- Commercial Aviation Systems (commercial_aviation_systems)
- Jet Aircraft (High-Speed Flight) (jet_aircraft_high_speed_flight)
Dependents
- None.
Fields
Field lanes
- Transportation & Logistics: Aviation
Node sources
- History (IATA, 2026, generic_overview) • Supports: node, maturity
- De Havilland DH-106 Comet 1 (Federal Aviation Administration, 2026, official_agency) • Supports: node, maturity, edge
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 3
- Average edge confidence: 78%
- Prerequisite sources: 3
- primary_source: 3
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jet Aircraft (High-Speed Flight) (jet_aircraft_high_speed_flight) | required | 90% | primary_source | A jet airliner is a commercial passenger aircraft using jet propulsion; the Comet source anchors this to jet transport aircraft rather than propeller airliners. |
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| Commercial Aviation Systems (commercial_aviation_systems) | commercial_or_scaling_dependency | 78% | primary_source | The first jet airliner milestone is scheduled passenger service by BOAC, so commercial airline operations are deployment context rather than the propulsion technology itself. |
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| Advanced Materials Science (advanced_materials_science) | accelerates | 66% | primary_source | The Comet failures exposed unresolved fatigue and aluminum-alloy behavior in pressurized jet transports; materials-science knowledge accelerated safer jet-airliner scaling rather than making the first service possible. |
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