The fastest Boeing found on the flightline today is more than just that, it’s also the last Queen of the Skies to ever take to the air.

the Boeing 747-146 that plays the part of Air Force One, one of two modified 747-200s operated by the 89th Airlift Wing at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. To create a kind of stunt double for ...

“Aviation is the definitive technology of the 20th century,” says Tom Crouch, senior curator of aeronautics at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM) and author of ...

Wing flaps. A circular fuselage ... It began with a mission to take on Boeing's queen of the skies, the mighty 747. The plan: to build the world's first superjumbo, a double-decker jetliner. Building ...

It began with a mission to take on Boeing's queen of the skies ... and they risked everything to find out. Wing flaps. A circular fuselage. Swept back wings. A little bit of the historic DC-3 exists ...

A Boeing 747 is one of the most popular exhibits at the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta. This particular plane was the first Boeing 747-400 ever made and entered service in 1989. The jet flew for ...

Exhibits include the first Boeing 747-400 ever built and a working Boeing 737 flight simulator. This year, Delta Air Lines is celebrating its centennial. Huff Daland Dusters, the humble crop ...

the Boeing 747. Over 49 years, from 1971 to 2020, Qantas operated 64 of the four-engine jets known as the “Queen of the Skies”. Two remain in Australia – at the Historical Aircraft ...

The Boeing 747 ... variant of the 747 family. First delivered in 2012 to Cargolux, it is powered by General Electric GEnx-2B67 engines, which provide 16% better fuel efficiency than the 747-400F. It ...

For half a century, the Boeing 747 was a titan of long-haul travel, with the iconic shape of its distinctive humped fuselage dominating the world's airports and skies. Recent years have seen its ...