The Boeing 747 is quite possibly the most iconic airplane in aviation history. Everyone knows what the 747 is, even if they don’t care about planes. The ‘Queen of the Skies’ might have ended ...

The GE9X, when it enters service with the Boeing 777X, will be the largest jet engine in history. It will be the latest in a line of big twin-aisle engines that have steadily made long-haul flying ...

The Airbus A380 and Boeing 747 aircraft are no longer in production, but their operational and acquisition costs continue to ...

Germany produced three outstanding modern airliners in the interwar period: the Junkers Ju 52, Junkers Ju 86 and Focke-Wulf ...

Boeing set out to build the 747 after losing a contract for a huge military transport, the C-5A. The idea was to take advantage of the new engines developed for the transport — high-bypass turbofan ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing bids farewell to an icon on Tuesday: It’s delivering its final 747 jumbo jet. Since its first flight in 1969, the giant yet graceful 747 has served as a cargo plane, a commercial ...

While the World War II era was the first time we saw fighter jet engines take to the sky, there were some earlier operational prototypes. Anselm Franz, an Austrian engineer, designed and fitted one of ...

Haunting similarities can be found between the UPS jet crash and the deadliest aviation incident in U.S. history, a crash at ...

The cargo plane that crashed in a fiery explosion near Louisville's airport was in San Antonio for six weeks. Experts say ...