While modern commercial aircraft can be hard to tell apart, there's no mistaking the majestic shape of the Boeing 747. Its distinctive hump containing the cockpit and a second-floor seating area ahead ...
More than 70 years have passed since the first successful mass-produced passenger jet—the Boeing 707—revolutionized air travel. While the aviation industry has undergone dramatic transformations over ...
The first and final 747 jumbo jet models both started with a handshake deal. Back in the mid-1960s, the leaders of Boeing Co. and PanAm came to an agreement that if the US planemaker pushed ahead with ...