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 ...

In the directive that the FAA published to the Federal Register on February 12, the regulator noted that the notice of ...

January 22, 2025, marks the 55 th anniversary of the first commercial flight of the Boeing 747, the graceful giant jet that changed the world of travel. Amazingly, four airlines still fly ...

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

A Lufthansa Boeing 747-8 flight from Miami to Frankfurt was forced to make an emergency landing after its captain became ...

As an aircraft type reaches the end of its service life, examples of it flying commercially become rarer and rarer (the ...

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

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

The U.S. Air Force is looking forward to replacing the current primary presidential aircraft with VC-25B, based on the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental aircraft given the VC-25A is now old after ...

Almost ten years after the last Boeing 747 rolled off the production line, China is drawing up plans to build its own ...