For many 747-400 freighters, the cost of a major engine overhaul can exceed the market value of the airframe itself.

Designed to reduce noise, nacelle chevrons ultimately proved to be more bad than good.

A team of mechanics are in the process of removing the jet engines from a 747. It's painstaking, careful work - one mistake can lead to irreparable damage to the ...

The Boeing 747 entered service with Pan American Airlines in January 1970 and became the workhorse of the world’s long-haul, high-capacity fleet. To-date, Boeing ...

Video shows flames pouring from one of the Boeing 747’s left-side engines, which forced the jet’s pilots to divert back to Miami International airport just 14min into a scheduled flight to San Juan, ...

Through the heat haze, airplane tails rose from the desert. As I steered off the interstate toward Pinal Airpark, in Marana, Arizona, I got my first view of a corpse in full: a stark-white Boeing 747, ...

The true cost of flying a Boeing 747 isn't one number. Learn why airlines and charter operators pay dramatically different ...

US aviation regulators on Tuesday ordered inspections of all Pratt & Whitney engines similar to the one that broke up on a Boeing 777 passenger plane over Denver at the weekend, directing the tests be ...

From a secluded cocktail bar to a high-density seating zone, the evolution of the 747's upper deck reflects the changing ...

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The company revolutionized air travel with the 747 jumbo jet in the 1960s and played a key role in the Space Race. A 1997 merger with McDonnell Douglas shifted the company's culture from ...