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 ...

Boeing's launch of the Boeing 747 in 1969 was a huge step forward for long-haul airline travel. It was the first wide-body airplane of its time to comfortably seat 400 passengers and could fly farther ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Air Force is now actively exploring what it would take to turn an already heavily-modified 747-8i airliner from Qatar ...

The US Air Force will spend an estimated US$400 million to US$1 billion in converting the ex-Qatari 747 to Air Force One spec ...

Because aerospace giant Boeing no longer manufactures the 747, additional parts will be needed over time to keep the main Air Force One flying. With delays mounting, and the president taking a vested ...

A decommissioned Boeing 747 jumbo jet fuselage that was once used at Northern Nevada’s Burning Man festival taxied the streets of Las Vegas and North Las Vegas on Wednesday and successfully arrived at ...

Summary: Korean Air has sold five Boeing 747-8 aircraft to Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC), a defense contractor, to be converted into the U.S. Air Force’s next Survivable Airborne Operations Center (SAOC) ...

In mid-September 2024, an image allegedly depicting the economy class cabin of a PanAm Boeing 747 aircraft in the 1960s was shared on Facebook. The photo showed a wide airplane cabin with two aisles, ...