The Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental successfully began its flight test program Monday taking off from Paine Field in Everett, Washington state, before more than several thousand employees ...

the Boeing 747-400 and the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental. While both aircraft serve similar routes, they feature notably ...

The Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental undertook its maiden flight on March 20th, 2011, just over a year after the cargo-carrying 747-8F model took to the skies for the first time in February 2010.

If anybody is primed to believe in the latest version of the 747—the one with the suffix -8 (also known as the Intercontinental)—it’s Lufthansa executive vice president Nico Buchholz.