The Boeing 747 has forever etched its name in the aviation history books and as a favorite aircraft for passengers to fly on. While there were once hundreds of passenger-carrying 747s in the skies at ...

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More than 70 years have passed since the first successful mass-produced passenger jet—the Boeing 707—revolutionized air travel. While the aviation industry has undergone dramatic transformations over ...

Boeing's launch of the Boeing 747 in 1969 was a huge step forward for long-haul airline travel. It was the first wide-body airplane of its time to comfortably seat 400 passengers and could fly farther ...

They’re massive pieces of engineering that seem to defy physics as they hang in the air during takeoff and landing, but double-decker passenger airplanes — the Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 — are still ...

It has now been well over half a century since the Boeing 747 entered service, with the type's introduction in the early 1970s marking a milestone in terms of 20th-century long-haul aviation. The ...

More than 54 years, 1,574 aircraft and 17 major derivatives separate the first 747 rollout in September 1968 and the final one in December 2022 (pictured). Credit: Paul Weatherman/Boeing In February ...

The last Boeing 747 has been built, closing out a production run of over 50 years. As reported by Business Insider, cargo operator Atlas Air will take delivery of the final aircraft, number #1574, ...