The Boeing 747 is a widebody, four-engined airliner that was in production from 1968 until its final delivery last year.

The slowest speeds a commercial aircraft can flight varies by a large range of factors but many will stall between 200 and ...

The jumbo jet's days as a passenger plane are numbered. The Boeing 747, once the go-to passenger jet for airlines around the world, is destined to live out its days as a cargo jet. "The future of ...

Boeing has released several variations of the jumbo jet during its lifetime ... that never made it off the drawing boards was the 747 Trijet. In the 1960s and 1970s, the company toyed with ...

With four-engine jumbo jets like the Boeing 747 and the Airbus A380 quickly losing favor with airlines, smaller, more efficient twin-engine widebodies have taken their place as the industry's ...

Two Boeing 747 planes have been sold on the Chinese e-shopping website Taobao for more than 320m yuan ($48m; £36m). The jumbo jets are from a defunct cargo company and the court handling the ...

The Boeing 747, the US plane that revolutionised air ... and is credited with starting the era of the jumbo jet, being the first aircraft to earn the nickname. On Tuesday, thousands of employees ...

Under Boeing's plan, the current 747 jumbo jet will be modified to allow it to fly more than 8,000 miles without refuelling, and the plans for a superjumbo will be kept on the drawing board.

The Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 are giants of the skies but are gradually being retired. Only around 50 passenger Boeing 747s ...

With a Boeing 747 jumbo jet capable of carrying more than 500 passengers, that translates into approximately five victims per full flight. Of the patients in the study found to have blood clots ...

The iconic Boeing 747-400 is being phased out by airlines, but some museums aim to preserve its legacy. Ship 6301, the ...

The company has built legendary jetliners for more than 60 years, from the Boeing 707 transatlantic pioneer to the distinctive 747, the jumbo jet with a piano bar. The company has sold more than ...