The events around British Airways Boeing 747 flight BA 009 reveal the potential dangers of volcanic ash. Plumes of volcanic… Read More
Of the 1,574 747s built up to December of 2022 (when the final 747 left Boeing’s Everett Factory), somewhere between… Read More
Despite both aircraft attempting to avoid each other, with the Pan Am Boeing 747 veering sharply onto the grass and… Read More
Boeing and Atlas Air Worldwide joined thousands of people to celebrate the delivery of the final 747 to Atlas, bringing… Read More
The last Boeing 747 left the company's widebody factory in advance of its delivery to Atlas Air in early 2023.… Read More
NASA Boeing 747SP, registration N747NA, modified to carry a reflecting telescope for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), operated… Read More
Even today, debate continues as to what the KAL Boeing 747 was doing for 2.5 hours in a place where… Read More
Su-15 pilot Aleksandr I. Bosov fired a single R-98MR missile, reporting an explosion and saying that the target was losing… Read More
British Airways Boeing 747 flight BA 009, flown by Captain Eric Moody, lost thrust from all four engines at 37,000ft.… Read More
As far as is known, this was the first-ever encounter between an Iraqi pilot and the shadowy stealth fighter of… Read More
The plans represent the symbolic culmination of a four-decades-old and deep-rooted exchange programme between the USAF and RAF founded on… Read More
Empty the Spruce Goose weighed almost twice what a fully loaded B-29 weighed at takeoff when at combat overload weight. They were just insane… Read More
The Air Force One circled speedway stands that were not completely full at the time. Taken on Feb. 16, 2020… Read More
Bruce Dickinson formed a close alliance with the service in 2008, when he took the controls of an MoD-chartered 747… Read More
On Jul. 6, 1972, Mery Evenson and Coz Mallozzi flew SR-71 Blackbird test airframe '955 on a 3-hour sortie, checking… Read More
The dive site will have a 70-meter long decommissioned Boeing 747 as its centrepiece, the largest aircraft ever to be… Read More
On Mar. 27, 1977, a KLM Boeing 747 and a Pan Am Boeing 747 collided on the tarmac at the… Read More
