These four-engine passenger planes can carry over 360 passengers and crew and were the first aircraft to be dubbed a "Jumbo ...

The Boeing 747, the US plane that revolutionised air travel, has been given a regal send-off in the skies over ... with starting the era of the jumbo jet, being the first aircraft to earn the ...

The jet's longtime success can be seen in the ... having built over 1,550 jumbos. The final 747 rolled off the assembly line in Everett, Washington, on December 6, and will be delivered to cargo ...

The Boeing 747 not only democratised air travel but romanticised it, too. It introduced the joy of flight to thousands who could not previously afford it and became the pin-up of the Jet Age.

A repurposed 747 jumbo jet is due to take off from the Spaceport at Newquay on Monday carrying a rocket to be released over the Atlantic. The airport expects about 2,500 people to be watching from ...

At any given moment hundreds of people are soaring above us in a 747. From the moment the very first jumbo jet took off in 1969, it has been the aircraft against which all others are judged.

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 ... 737-9 MAX plane blew off 10 minutes ...

SpaceX accomplished a groundbreaking engineering feat Sunday, when it launched the fifth test flight of its gigantic Starship ...

Eren Ozmen’s reputation and her firm Sierra Nevada Corp.'s finances hinge on whether she can pull off executing a complex, ...

Imagine being a passenger on a 747 jumbo jet, sitting on a runway and preparing ... starting at age 72 you will have to take out an annual amount specified by the IRS. This means you may have ...

The world's first-ever jumbo jet, the Boeing 747, was constructed by American aircraft ... aircraft by passenger capacity — the A380-800. Take a look at the 10 of the world's largest passenger ...