With zero hours flying experience, suddenly I’m in charge of the gigantic 747 jumbo jet. But this is no ... Nicknamed The Queen Of The Skies, Boeing’s beast first took off in 1969 and ...

The Boeing 747 is a widebody, four-engined airliner that was in production from 1968 until its final delivery last year ...

The slowest speeds a commercial aircraft can flight varies by a large range of factors but many will stall between 200 and ...

Boeing has released several variations of the jumbo jet during its lifetime ... that never made it off the drawing boards was the 747 Trijet. In the 1960s and 1970s, the company toyed with ...

is a renovated Boeing 747, also known as a jumbo jet. Produced by Jason Gaines. Video courtesy of Associated Press. Follow BI Video: On Facebook More from Lifestyle The Jumbo Stay Hotel ...

The jumbo jet's days as a passenger plane are numbered. The Boeing 747, once the go-to passenger jet for airlines around the world, is destined to live out its days as a cargo jet. "The future of ...

With four-engine jumbo jets like the Boeing 747 and the Airbus A380 quickly losing favor with airlines, smaller, more efficient twin-engine widebodies have taken their place as the industry's ...

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 ...

The Boeing 747, the US plane that revolutionised air ... and is credited with starting the era of the jumbo jet, being the first aircraft to earn the nickname. On Tuesday, thousands of employees ...

Two Boeing 747 planes have been sold on the Chinese e-shopping website Taobao for more than 320m yuan ($48m; £36m). The jumbo jets are from a defunct cargo company and the court handling the ...