The original Boeing 747 transformed the world of commercial aviation and launched one of the most beloved aircraft ever built ...

Perhaps one of the most iconic passenger planes ever built was the four-engined Boeing 747. The plane was a huge success for ...

With zero hours flying experience, suddenly I’m in charge of the gigantic 747 jumbo jet. But this is no ... Nicknamed The Queen Of The Skies, Boeing’s beast first took off in 1969 and ...

The jumbo jet's days as a passenger plane are numbered. The Boeing 747, once the go-to passenger jet for airlines around the world, is destined to live out its days as a cargo jet. "The future of ...

With four-engine jumbo jets like the Boeing 747 and the Airbus A380 quickly losing favor with airlines, smaller, more efficient twin-engine widebodies have taken their place as the industry's ...

The standard variants of the Boeing 747, such as the 747-100 and 747-400, were longer and heavier than the 747SP. The most ...

We look back on the original Jumbo Jet’s colourful history. The 747 was imagined in the 1960s to meet a growing demand for air travel, with Pan Am asking Boeing to design a plane twice the size ...

The second Boeing 747-8 arrived in Dayton after a 12-hour flight from Seoul and will be converted to a ‘Doomsday’ aircraft at ...

The Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 are giants of the skies but are gradually being retired. Only around 50 passenger Boeing 747s ...

The company has built legendary jetliners for more than 60 years, from the Boeing 707 transatlantic pioneer to the distinctive 747, the jumbo jet with a piano bar. The company has sold more than ...

Two Boeing 747 planes have been sold on the Chinese e-shopping website Taobao for more than 320m yuan ($48m; £36m). The jumbo jets are from a defunct cargo company and the court handling the ...

Leeds Bradford Airport has marked 40 years since a runway upgrade heralded the arrival of transatlantic flights. The first ...