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 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 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. The Seattle manufacturer did ...

The Boeing 747 is one of the primary long-range wide-body airplanes flown throughout the world. These four-engine passenger ...

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 ...

The Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 are giants of the skies but are gradually being retired. Only around 50 passenger Boeing 747s ...