Airlines are constantly disposing of old aircraft and acquiring new ones. The reasons rarely have much—if anything—to do with ...

The Boein 747 is one of the company's best airplanes to date. Heer is how much fuel it needs to fly to its maximum range and ...

Nicknamed the "flying Oval Office," modern Air Force One planes are equipped with everything the president might need.

Some of the longest passenger planes in the world are real giants. Right now, the longest plane is the Boeing 747-8 at 250 ft ...

Seconds after taking off from San Francisco, a United Airlines Boeing 747 shudders violently as one of its engines starts to fail. The intense vibrations terrify the passengers, and are so strong that ...

Certification and retrofit problems on two plane types are costing Lufthansa valuable lost revenue from fancy new Allegris ...

T he Boeing 747 program has given us icons of the skies like the earlier 747-100 and 747-200 models, as well as the ...

DALLAS — Today at 11:34 PST, in 1969, the prototype Boeing 747 took to the skies from Seattle, Washington, for the first time ...

Saudi Flight 763 had taken off from Delhi while Kazakh Flight 1907 was minutes away from landing in Delhi. A K Dutta, the ...

A Lufthansa Boeing 747 was forced to make an emergency landing when its captain fainted shortly after takeoff from ...

A pilot fainted midflight forcing a packed 747 he was flying to turn around while stewards tried to revive the captain.

Although its numbers have thinned, ten airlines still operate the enormous, graceful Airbus A380 for international luxury ...