Perhaps one of the most iconic passenger planes ever built was the four-engined Boeing 747. The plane was a huge success for ...

The iconic Boeing 747-400 is being phased out by airlines, but some museums aim to preserve its legacy. Ship 6301, the ...

The MD-12 was McDonnell Douglas’s bold answer to Boeing’s 747—a double-deck jumbo jet designed to dominate the skies. But despite its innovative design and ambitious plans, it never made it past the ...

Stretching out in my business class seat, glass in hand, I’m beginning to relax into the flight to New York when suddenly the unthinkable happens. An urgent tap on my shoulder from a member of ...

The original Boeing 747 transformed the world of commercial aviation and launched one of the most beloved aircraft ever built ...

The Jumbo Stay Hotel, located just by Arlanda International Airport near the Swedish capital Stockholm, is a renovated Boeing 747, also known as a jumbo jet. Produced by Jason Gaines. Video ...

The second Boeing 747-8 arrived in Dayton after a 12-hour flight from Seoul and will be converted to a ‘Doomsday’ aircraft at ...

First impressions matter. When visitors to the National Air and Space Museum enter the great expanse of the America by Air ...

We look back on the original Jumbo Jet’s colourful history. The 747 was imagined in the 1960s to meet a growing demand for air travel, with Pan Am asking Boeing to design a plane twice the size ...

At any given moment hundreds of people are soaring above us in a 747. From the moment the very first jumbo jet took off in 1969, it has been the aircraft against which all others are judged.

The Boeing 747, the US plane that revolutionised air travel, has been given a regal send-off in the skies over Washington State. Atlas Air, an American cargo airline, took delivery of the last 747 ...

The jumbo jet's days as a passenger plane are numbered. The Boeing 747, once the go-to passenger jet for airlines around the world, is destined to live out its days as a cargo jet. "The future of ...