Stretching out in my business class seat, glass in hand, I’m beginning to relax into the flight to New York when suddenly the unthinkable happens. An urgent tap on my shoulder from a member of the ...
They ordered 25 Boeing 747s at a cost of $525 million. Joe Sutter was moved from the Boeing 737 development program to design the new 747 in 1965. Ultimately he would design the world's first ...
When the Boeing 747 was taken for a test flight in 1968, the pilot, David P. Davies, described it as “a most impressive aeroplane with a number of exceptionally fine qualities.
Get ready for a new kind of firefight in Western skies this summer, with a 747 jumbo jet taking on a hulking DC-10. Evergreen International Aviation of McMinnville is betting about $40 million on the ...
Perhaps one of the most iconic passenger planes ever built was the four-engined Boeing 747. The plane was a huge ... several variations of the jumbo jet during its lifetime, with the last one ...