The Boeing 747, famously known as the “Queen of the Skies,” has defined global air travel since its revolutionary debut in 1970. As the world’s first wide-body jumbo jet, it transformed the aviation ...

The 747-400 made its entry into service in February 1989 and attracted huge interest from carriers across the globe. Boeing's ...

Boeing’s bearish outlook on “very large” aircraft isn’t focused solely on its own 747. The company also has taken a dim view on rival Airbus’s A380 superjumbo jet.

The Boeing 747, dubbed "The Queen of the Skies" has a long, storied history in aviation. Here is everything we know about this gigantic aircraft.

"The 747 is the most-reliable four-engine aircraft made today," he adds. But those four engines are one reason industry analysts are concerned. Boeing, however, says the 747's numbers work.

More than half a century since the original jumbo jet “shrank the world” to transform commercial aviation, the last ever Boeing 747 is being delivered, marking the start of the final chapter ...

The aircraft they produced would be the Boeing 747-100, the first variant of a new aircraft that featured four engines and two levels. The first flight of the Boeing 747. Bettmann/Getty ...

As for the 747-8's cargo capacity, the aircraft can reportedly carry a payload of up to 308,000 pounds, or about 154 tons. As Boeing playfully points out, that's about 10,767 gold bars.

The second Boeing 747-8 arrived in Dayton after a 12-hour flight from Seoul and will be converted to a ‘Doomsday’ aircraft at SNC’s Aviation Innovation and Technology Center.

Boeing once studied turning a 747 widebody airliner into a flying aircraft carrier.; The plane would have carried up to 10 “microfighters” into combat. The concept was never built out, but a ...

The 747-8-based presidential planes will replace presidential aircraft based on Boeing’s 747-200 plane. The first of those two presidential planes, designated “Air Force One” when the chief ...

Lego has released another NASA-themed set; this time, a version of the US space agency's Boeing 747-based Shuttle Carrier ...