Commercial jets make getting around the globe easier than ever before, but which one can travel the longest on a single tank ...

This can be impacted by several key factors: the airplane's total shape as well as its wing shape, the direction of airflow, and the aircraft's size and weight. For the Boeing 747, under ideal ...

In the 1970s, the U.S. Air Force asked Boeing ... 10 of these 747 airborne aircraft carriers (AAC) could fly 100 of these small fighters into a hot zone, ready for action. By comparison, the ...

A large asteroid as wide as the wingspan of a Boeing 747 passed ... the wingspan of a 747, the height of the Cinderella Castle in Disney World and around half the size of the Great Pyramid of ...

The Boeing 747, the US plane that revolutionised air travel, has been given a regal send-off in the skies over Washington State. Atlas Air, an American cargo airline, took delivery of the last 747 ...

Boeing has said it will stop making its classic 747 plane and is eyeing steeper job cuts than those it has previously announced. The firm is also planning to slow production of many of its jets ...

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 ...

Boeing stock (NYSE: BA) currently trades at $170 per share, around 35% below its level in March 2021. In comparison, its peer – GE Aerospace stock (NYSE: GE) saw its stock surge 2.5x over the ...

“The first week of losses for Boeing are substantial, but they’ll pale in comparison to what comes in the following weeks,” Anderson told CNN. Boeing deliveries to many airlines were already ...

After the four-engine Boeing 747 flew into the history books of most airlines during the pandemic and Airbus scrapped the production of its double-decker successor, the A380 superjumbo ...