T he Boeing 747 and the Airbus A380 are the world's only double-decker passenger jets. Visually, the Airbus A380 resembles a ...

The Boeing 747 once carried the space shuttle and is credited with making air travel more accessible to the general public. Now, after more than five decades, the last brand-new 747 has been built.

Dubbed the “Jumbo Jet” by the media, the 747-100 was about 1.5 times as large as a Boeing 707 and could carry 440 passengers compared to the 707’s modest 189 headcount.

After 53 years and more than 1,570 planes, the last Boeing 747 rolled off the assembly line in Washington state Tuesday evening, on its way to serve as a cargo plane. The once-groundbreaking jumbo ...

As the last Boeing 747 leaves the factory, it's time to celebrate the plane's success, not to wallow in nostalgia.

Today, with hindsight being 20/20, we know how the Boeing 747 revolutionized air travel. But that was anything but a sure thing back when it was still on the drawing board in the mid-1960s.

The Boeing 747 version of the Boeing Business Jets (BBJ) is the world's largest private jet. With only a handful of examples ...

The plane known as “Queen of the Skies” helped make air travel more affordable, but it has been supplanted by smaller, more efficient aircraft. The first Boeing 747 at the plant in Washington ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing bids farewell to an icon on Tuesday: It’s delivering its final 747 jumbo jet. Since its first flight in 1969, the giant yet graceful 747 has served as a cargo plane, a ...

The first 747 entered service in 1970 on Pan Am's New York-London route, shortly before the oil crisis of 1973 and during a recession that forced Boeing to cut its employment numbers from 100,800 ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing bids farewell to an icon on Tuesday: It’s delivering its final 747 jumbo jet. Since its first flight in 1969, the giant yet graceful 747 has served as a cargo plane, a ...

Air Force One is a Boeing 747-200B, ... The Qatari plane is a Boeing 747-8, ... an upper deck lounge area with a long leather sofa facing a large flat screen television, ...