Boeing’s success with the 747 — the company has now delivered 1,574 models and racked up more than 118 million flight hours worldwide — began with a failure.

Today I’m flying the world's longest Boeing 747 flight in First Class from Seoul all the way to Atlanta USA. With a retail cost of over $8000, in my review I’ll show you exactly what the ...

The last 747-8 freighter model will fly to Portland for painting and return to Everett early in 2023 before testing and ... The final 747 jumbo jet rolled out of Boeing’s Everett plant late ...

The Boeing 747, known as the "Queen of the Skies," revolutionized air travel since its first flight in 1969. It's now mostly a cargo plane, and the last 747 just rolled off Boeing's production lines.

The last Boeing 747, a -8F, is the 1574th built in a production run spanning 55 years. Join the final B747 delivery ceremony at the Boeing Everett factory, where Boeing’s current and former CEO ...

Kim Smith, Boeing's VP and general manager for the 747 and 767 programs, revealed that the model's production line shut down as workers finished building different parts for the last plane.

In the modern digital age of computer design and virtual 3D models that can be created with a few mouse clicks, it's hard to imagine what challenge the engineers on the Boeing 747 design team were ...

At 63 feet tall and 250-feet-wide the 747 was the first plane to be called a "jumbo jet," and Boeing said the Everett factory the 747 has been built in is the largest building in the world by volume.

The iconic plane is less efficient than newer models and has four engines to maintain, instead of two. The 747 helped revolutionize air travel. SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing bids farewell to an icon on ...

News Peg. The incident involved a freighter version of the 747-8 aircraft, the latest and most advanced model of Boeing’s popular jumbo jet. With airlines choosing more modern and fuel-efficient ...

Boeing's 747, the original and arguably most aesthetic "Jumbo Jet", revolutionized air travel only to see its more than five-decade reign as "Queen of the Skies" ended by more efficient twinjet ...