A fully double-decked Boeing 747 would never meet this regulation leading to Boeing engineers going back to the drawing board ... marking the dawn of the jumbo jet era. The 747 was an instant ...

Passengers traveling in premium cabins aboard Lufthansa's Boeing 747-8 might soon be in for a treat. The airline announced it ...

The famous Boeing 747, perhaps the most famous commercial aircraft in all of history, serves another purpose that only the global elite can enjoy: a jumbo private jet. While the 747 was originally ...

Can the Airbus A380 'superjumbo' outlive the Boeing 747 'jumbo jet'? The answer depends somewhat on how that question is ...

SEATTLE--After more than half a century, the last Boeing 747 rolled out of a Washington state factory on Tuesday. The 747 jumbo jet has taken on numerous roles--a cargo plane, a commercial ...

The long-running British heavy-metal band has put up for sale pieces of the Boeing 747 jumbo jet it used for its 2016 "The Book of Souls" world tour, which has been cut down into collectible key ...

File Photo Ken Cedeno/UPI In 1977, two Boeing 747 jumbo jets collided and exploded in flames on a foggy runway at Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands, killing 583 people in the worst ...

A retired Boeing 747 is being turned into ... art piece may catch someone's attention, the 747 is particularly famous. The quad-engine jet, nicknamed the "Queen of the Skies," was the world's ...

The introduction of the double-decker Boeing 747 jumbo jet in 1970 took first-class service to new heights. The extra width of the 747's cabin gave airlines the ability to up their games even further.