You might have seen two strange-looking Boeing 747 airplanes with a bizarre fifth engine mounted on top of the fuselage, operated by Pratt & Whitney. It creates quite a surreal sight, and it almost ...

GE Aerospace showed off its Boeing 747 "flying laboratory" in July. It's being used to test the engine of Boeing's future 777X.Carl Court/Getty Images Leading American manufacturer GE Aerospace is ...

Built for raw power, these mechanical monsters had extraordinary horsepower, massive wingspans, and up to 12 engines, pushing ...

Where does Lufthansa's retro 747-8 fly to on a daily basis? We spent 72 hours tracking its every move across the globe ...

Widebodies can cost tens upon tens of thousands of dollars an hour to run.

The Boeing 747 entered service with Pan American Airlines in January 1970 and became the workhorse of the world’s long-haul, high-capacity fleet. To-date, Boeing ...

Boeing's launch of the Boeing 747 in 1969 was a huge step forward for long-haul airline travel. It was the first wide-body airplane of its time to comfortably seat 400 passengers and could fly farther ...

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, ...