The Boeing 747 is one of the world’s first wide-body Jumbo Jet, and the dynamic canvas of many special liveries.
That was probably one of the most important decisions we made, because it influenced [the size of the] fuselage. Its how the wide-body concept came into being. The 747-100, the first variant of ...
When Boeing's iconic 747 aircraft first took to the skies in 1969, the massive aircraft almost immediately changed the aircraft game, proving itself a plane capable of carrying both cargo and ...
We recently saw a special anniversary in the history of commercial aviation, with January 30th, 2025 marking 37 years since ...
As planned by Boeing, the 747 was long popular with cargo operators thanks to its unobstructed fuselage and vast capacity. It could take off with a payload of up to 970,000lbs. As planned by ...
The Boeing 747-400 wide-body airliner has been around ... when it was dropped from Stratolaunch's other launch platform, the double fuselage Roc, and took off on its first-ever powered flight.
But he never got over Pan Am, which filed for bankruptcy in 1991. He assembled a decommissioned 747 fuselage in his Redondo Beach garage and reconstituted its first-class cabin; the big score was ...
"From the pictures coming in from Manila it's quite evident that a section of the fuselage gave way in flight," Jane's Aviation Expert Chris Yates said in a statement. "As a consequence of this ...