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The Story Behind Boeing's 747 Airborne Aircraft Carrier
In the 1970s, the U.S. Air Force asked Boeing, a leading defense ... needed to be jumped to take this concept from the drawing board to the runaway. Once the 747 was ready to go, the scaled ...
Giants Of The Skies: How The Airbus A380 & Boeing 747 Compare To One Another
The Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 are giants of the skies but are gradually being retired. Only around 50 passenger Boeing 747s ...
BBC1y
Boeing 747: Last plane delivered in regal send-off
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 ...
The Daily Telegraph4y
FAREWELL TO THE BOEING 747
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 of the 707, the first jetliner.
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Real Photo of Economy Class Airline Seating on Boeing 747 in 1960s?
In mid-September 2024, an image allegedly depicting the economy class cabin of a PanAm Boeing 747 aircraft in the 1960s was shared on Facebook. The photo showed a wide airplane cabin with two ...
Seattle Times1d
Boeing & Aerospace
Boeing Machinists have rejected a contract offer aimed to end the nearly six-week strike, with 64% voting against the proposal. VIEW The Machinists’ vote on Wednesday will determine if 33,000 ...
The Independent8d
Could planes be brought back from the desert to fill the global shortage of aircraft?
You need venture only as far as Lourdes in southwest France to discover dozens ... I saw a string of former British Airways Boeing 747 Jumbo jets growing old beneath the desert sun.
ABC News14d
Boeing to cut approximately 17,000 jobs over the coming months
CEO Kelly Ortberg announced the plans in a letter to employees on Friday. Boeing will reduce the size of its total workforce by 10% over the coming months, CEO Kelly Ortberg said in a letter to ...
BBC10mon
Last Qantas 747 jet says goodbye with 'flying kangaroo' in sky
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 ...
CNN6y
Boeing Company
The Boeing Co. is an aerospace company, which engages in the manufacture of commercial jetliners and defense, space, and security systems. It operates through the following segments: Commercial ...
Barron's4mon
Southwest Says No Airbus Plans Despite Boeing Delays
Despite delays to certification of the Boeing 737 MAX 7, a Southwest Airlines executive says the airline isn't planning to pivot to an Airbus jet order. "We have done that analysis multiple times ...