While modern commercial aircraft can be hard to tell apart, there's no mistaking the majestic shape of the Boeing 747. Its distinctive hump containing the cockpit and a second-floor seating area ahead ...

The jet was perhaps the pinnacle of American engineering excellence. Its retirement signals an end to an era of American ...

Boeing 747 aircraft are still being sought after as passenger and freighter aircraft, as well as backups for Air Force One, by countries from the United States to Russia.

Comparing and contrasting two leading American widebodies.

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 ...