While the A380 is bigger, it has a slightly lower cruising speed than the 747. The Boeing 707 and DC-8 were capable of flying at impressive speeds and outpaced older quadjets. The Boeing 747 is ...

While many airlines around the world have stopped operating the 747, the freighter version remains one of the great ...

and enormous as it was, the 747 had gone from a literal back-of-a-napkin drawing to a fully functional aircraft in just over two years, an astonishing achievement. A decade earlier Boeing’s 707 ...

The 747 was imagined in the 1960s to meet a growing demand for air travel, with Pan Am asking Boeing to design a plane twice the size of the 707, the first jetliner. The Seattle manufacturer did ...

A Boeing 747 is one of the most popular exhibits at the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta. This particular plane was the first Boeing 747-400 ever made and entered service in 1989. The jet flew for ...