January 22, 2025, marks the 55 th anniversary of the first commercial flight of the Boeing 747, the graceful giant jet that changed the world of travel. Amazingly, four airlines still fly ...
Some of the longest passenger planes in the world are real giants. Right now, the longest plane is the Boeing 747-8 at 250 ft ...
The Boeing 377 Stratocruiser was one of the last great long-range airliners developed by Boeing before the jet age. The ...
A Lufthansa Boeing 747-8 flight from Miami to Frankfurt was forced to make an emergency landing after its captain became ...
On February 9, 1969, the Boeing 747, the world’s first wide-body jet, took its maiden flight, revolutionising air travel.
Almost ten years after the last Boeing 747 rolled off the production line, China is drawing up plans to build its own ...
The jet stream is like a river of west-to-east winds in the upper atmosphere. Airplanes use it like a highway.
Although its numbers have thinned, ten airlines still operate the enormous, graceful Airbus A380 for international luxury ...
DALLAS — Today at 11:34 PST, in 1969, the prototype Boeing 747 took to the skies from Seattle, Washington, for the first time ...
We recently saw a special anniversary in the history of commercial aviation, with January 30th, 2025 marking 37 years since ...