Join the final Boeing 747 delivery ceremony at the Everett factory, honoring the last B747, a -8F, as the 1574th built in a 55-year production run. The video features insights from Boeing’s current ...
United Airlines has retired its iconic Boeing 747 fleet, celebrating its final passenger flight with a commemorative trip from San Francisco to Honolulu, mirroring its inaugural 1970 route. The 747 is ...
Through the heat haze, airplane tails rose from the desert. As I steered off the interstate toward Pinal Airpark, in Marana, Arizona, I got my first view of a corpse in full: a stark-white Boeing 747, ...
Born in a factory so large that clouds once formed within it, the 747-100 was nearly twice as long as the Wright brothers’ entire first flight. Aviation historian Martin Bowman has written that during ...