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The 747-8i is now approaching its 13th year in commercial service. The German flag carrier Lufthansa introduced the type in ...
According to data from ch-aviation, three Boeing 747-100 aircraft have not been scrapped. In addition, ch-aviation misses a fourth example, the prototype "City of Everett". None of these aircraft ...
The Boeing 747-100 was quickly replaced by the 747-200 in ... America's current presidential aircraft — the Air Force One — is also based on the 747-200 but is not designated as one and ...
The most recent iterations of Air Force One, the U.S. presidential aircraft, have been Boeing 747/VC-25s ... Stephen Yeates, who flew the Classic -100, -200, and -300, and the -400 for British ...
The carrier took delivery of its first Boeing 747-100 in 1970 but soon realized that ... Pratt & Whitney then used the aircraft as a test bed for its PW4000 series engines, which would power ...
The German airline wanted a two-person cockpit for the 747-100 but only ... development of the Boeing 2707 project, which killed the possibility that supersonic aircraft would be the vehicles ...
More section for boarding onboard a Boeing 747-800 aircraft of German carrier Lufthansa ... Yet the plane has outlived many of the 100 airlines that flew it, like Pan Am, TWA, Northwest Orient ...
Boeing introduced a more advanced two-engine 777 aircraft in the ... the final model, the 747-8, which included around 50 passenger configurations and over 100 cargo configurations.
Boeing's big 747-passenger jet made its first flight ... In theory, 10 of these 747 airborne aircraft carriers (AAC) could fly 100 of these small fighters into a hot zone, ready for action.
Before the Boeing 757 sold to Trump, it also spent time as a corporate aircraft for the now-late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Trump purchased the plane for a whopping $100 million and it would ...
In the early 2010s, Boeing introduced the last model, the 747-8, delivering about 50 passenger versions and more than 100 versions for ... Image The last Boeing 747 aircraft produced during ...
Opinion: The Qatari gift amounts to a flying palace rather than a flying White House meant for vital work, argues former Air ...