Does it make a significant difference to to choose one aircraft or another for a long flight? If so, that's the thing, which ...

Which Will Retire First? The Boeing 747 has been around since 1970, almost four decades before the Airbus A380 made its ...

Trump says he could fly on Qatar's Boeing 747 converted for presidential use by February, while the Air Force estimates ...

The Boeing 747-100 was the first variant of the Boeing 747 family of aircraft. They are easy to distinguish as they were built with six upper-deck windows with three windows on each side.

There are 25,000 blue whales, an animal to which the jumbo jet is frequently compared, navigating the planet, but now only ...

A Boeing 747 is one of the most popular exhibits at the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta. This particular plane was the first Boeing 747-400 ever made and entered service in 1989. The jet flew for ...

The Boeing 747-400 known as Delta Ship 6301. Benjamin Zhang/Business Insider The aircraft, Delta Ship 6301, was the first Boeing 747-400 ever built and entered service with Northwest Airlines in 1989.

ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pa. — Pittsburgh International Airport’s newest cargo facility got its first official use with four Boeing 747-400F freighters filling up before heading off to Europe.

While the 747 remains one of aviation's most beloved aircraft, its future has become a question of practicality. The supersonic dreams Boeing once bet on never materialized in a meaningful way.

These planes have a 30-year life span and the current set of Boeing 747-200's will reach the end of their life in 2017, according to BloombergBusiness. The first new Air Force One is expected to ...

Boeing remains on track for the final body join of the first stretched 747 next month by completing assembly of the forward fuselage of the initial 747-8 Freighter, RC501. The 89 ft., 2 in ...