The Boeing 747 is quite possibly the most iconic airplane in aviation history. Everyone knows what the 747 is, even if they don’t care about planes. The ‘Queen of the Skies’ might have ended ...

Rolls Royce retires its iconic Boeing 747-200 testbed, N787RR, after nearly 20 years of groundbreaking engine trials, ...

The fuel switch on Boeing 787 Dreamliner has come under scrutiny after the initial report on the Air India crash that killed nearly 300 people in June ...

Qantas Airways Ltd's <QAN.AX> last Boeing 747 jet drew a kangaroo tail in the sky off the Australian coast as it began its final flight to retirement in the Mojave Desert on Wednesday ...

In response, Boeing and the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have reaffirmed that the fuel-switch design is not ...

Today, with hindsight being 20/20, we know how the Boeing 747 revolutionized air travel. But that was anything but a sure thing back when it was still on the drawing board in the mid-1960s.

Water spilled from a galley shut down all electricity supplies except the emergency battery backup on a Qantas Boeing 747-400 on Jan. 7, luckily when the aircraft was just 15 minutes from landing ...

While the 747 remains one of aviation's most beloved aircraft, its future has become a question of practicality. The supersonic dreams Boeing once bet on never materialized in a meaningful way.

The Boeing 747 landed safely in Melbourne on Monday morning after a flight from Los Angeles but was immediately grounded. The first officer noticed the cracks during the flight, a spokesman said.

Korean Air won't stop flying the world's longest Boeing 747 flight after all. The airline stopped flying the jumbo jet between Seoul and Atlanta — a 7,153-mile trek and the world's longest for ...