The Boeing 747 is quite possibly the most iconic airplane in aviation history. Everyone knows what the 747 is, even if they don’t care about planes. The ‘Queen of the Skies’ might have ended ...

The Boeing 747's design requirements, paired with the engine technology of the 1960s, meant the aircraft was designed with ...

Ortberg, a longtime aerospace executive and an engineer whom the manufacturer plucked from retirement to fix the ...

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

Several thousand Boeing union workers at three St. Louis-area plants who build fighter jets are planning to go on strike ...

Safety? Security? Or comfort? That’s the $1 billion decision that confronted US President Donald Trump with his new Air Force One.

Boeing, the aerospace juggernaut of American ingenuity, marked the start of its 777-8 Freighter production by drilling ...

Boeing began building its 777-8 Freighter, starting with drilling the first wing spar hole at its Everett factory.

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.

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.