In January, United Airlines announced that it will expedite the retirement of its fleet of Boeing 747-400 jumbo jets. United, the last major airline in the US to operate the venerable icon ...

The original Boeing 747 transformed the world of commercial aviation and launched one of the most beloved aircraft ever built ...

The US Air Force often finds military applications for civilian aircraft, from business jets to interplanetary spaceships.

Boeing has a long history with the office of the president of the United States ... has been flying aboard a Boeing 747-200 — ...

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

Lufthansa, one of the world's leading airlines, operates an extensive network of flights between Europe and the United States ...

Iberia Airlines flew the first commercial flight of the Airbus A321XLR on November 6, the beginning of an era of ultra-long ...

Perhaps one of the most iconic passenger planes ever built was the four-engined Boeing 747. The plane was a huge success for the company, ruling the skies for over 50 years. Boeing has released ...

The Boeing 747 not only democratised air travel but romanticised ... The First Lady of the United States Pat Nixon christened the first aircraft before its inaugural flight, on Pan Am’s New ...

Boeing’s 747 is big, but not so big that the forward fuselage can’t be part of a museum exhibit Bob van der Linden F. Robert van der Linden is a curator who specializes in commercial aviation.

On June 20, 1981, Theresa Claiborne was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force’s first Black female pilot, Claiborne would become the first Black woman to command and ...

"It really changed from one administration to another," Charles Denyer, a historian and the author of "Number One Observatory ...