In 1969, the Boeing 747 took its first flight, changing the face of aviation forever. It marked the dawn of affordable international travel and made global business feasible for corporations large and ...

Four-turbine aircraft are a rare sight on the tarmac these days, as the efficiency and affordability of twinjet aircraft has ...

I toured the Boeing 747 Experience at the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta. The jet was the first Boeing 747-400 produced and ...

Passengers love Boeing 747s and Airbus A380s, AKA the world’s biggest commercial jets, but they’re slowly being phased out.

A decade earlier Boeing’s 707 had ushered in the Jet Age, but with four fuel-thirsty engines and room for fewer than 200 passengers, fares were beyond the budget of most vacationers. The 747 ...

A decommissioned Boeing 747 jumbo jet fuselage that was once used at Northern Nevada’s Burning Man festival taxied the streets of Las Vegas and North Las Vegas on Wednesday and successfully ...

A Boeing 747-400 is a full 71 meters (230 feet ... The power, the noise of those 4 engines, the featherlight touchdowns (not my fault — blame good design) and her airborne elegance put the ...