FLYING contributor Peter James says he has fallen in love with the Felis 747-200 classic add-on, available for purchase from the x-plane.org online store. [Courtesy: Peter James] With exactly ...

INFOGRAPHIC: By the Numbers Gottshall came to the 747 Classic models from the operations side before coming to Boeing. As a con- tract pilot for Japan Airlines, he transitioned from the McDonnell ...

The 747 was once the choice of the rich and glamorous, and even royalty. Many movies, including the 1973 James Bond classic “Live and Let Die” featured the plane, or sets made to look like the ...

It's a bit difficult to get excited about the majesty of air travel when you're aimlessly flipping through the in-flight magazine on a 747 ... thrill of flight like classic planes.

They were able to do so much with that wide deck. The hump of the top, the classic hump of the 747, appeared because they had to put everything on one deck. They had to get the cockpit up and out ...