Delta Air Lines was the final US passenger airline to operate the Boeing 747, bringing its operations with the type to an end ...

Thanks to aerial refueling, the E-4B Doomsday Plane can stay airborne for up to a week, but engine fluids and crew endurance ultimately limit its flight time.

Taking the impressive Felis 747-200 model as a starting point, the team needed a donor cockpit and selected a former Japan Airlines Boeing 747-300, which had ended its flying days more than a decade ...

At 01:52 EST on January 22, 1970 an aviation legend made its first paying passenger flight. The Boeing 747 Pan Am flight from JFK to London Heathrow was the first commercial flight to feature a plane ...

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 ...

In today's world of capacity discipline and super-efficient twinjets, the late 20th century is an unusual era to examine. Despite air travel numbers being significantly lower than they are today, most ...