First impressions matter. When visitors to the National Air and Space Museum enter the great expanse of the America by Air ...

Watch as a Boeing takes - off from Chicago O'Hare Airport. View through the lens of the crew!

With zero hours flying experience, suddenly I’m in charge of the gigantic 747 jumbo jet ... Nicknamed The Queen Of The Skies, Boeing’s beast first took off in 1969 and made flying accessible ...

The second Boeing 747-8 arrived in Dayton after a 12-hour flight from Seoul and will be converted to a ‘Doomsday’ aircraft at ...

The Boeing 747, the US plane that revolutionised air travel, has been given a regal send-off in the skies over Washington State. Atlas Air, an American cargo airline, took delivery of the last 747 ...

We look back on the original Jumbo Jet’s colourful history. The 747 was imagined in the 1960s to meet a growing demand for air travel, with Pan Am asking Boeing to design a plane twice the size ...

After a few PR emergencies, federal scrutiny, legal proceedings, a machinists strike, and other business woes, it will likely be 10 years before Boeing can be back to business as normal.

Last year, it looked like Boeing was back on a better footing. "I have heard those outside our company wondering if we've lost a step. I view it as quite the opposite," Calhoun said in note to ...

Australian airline Qantas has bid farewell to its last Boeing 747 aeroplane with one final flourish - drawing its logo, the flying kangaroo, in the sky. Dozens gathered at Sydney Airport on ...

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Leeds Bradford Airport has marked 40 years since a runway upgrade heralded the arrival of transatlantic flights. The first flight from West Yorkshire to Canada took off on 4 November 1984, following ...

Boeing machinists head back to work for the first time in nearly two months after striking a deal with the company for better wages and benefits. Their new contract guarantees a 38% pay raise over ...