I toured the Boeing 747 Experience at the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta. The jet was the first Boeing 747-400 produced and ...

who in 2006 wrote the book 747: Creating the World’s First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures From a Life in Aviation. At a dinner in his honor in November 2013, the retired Boeing engineer told me ...

The famous Boeing 747, perhaps the most famous commercial aircraft in all of history, serves another purpose that only the ...

is a renovated Boeing 747, also known as a jumbo jet. Produced by Jason Gaines. Video courtesy of Associated Press. Follow BI Video: On Facebook More from Lifestyle The Jumbo Stay Hotel ...

A decommissioned Boeing 747 jumbo jet fuselage that was once used at Northern Nevada’s Burning Man festival taxied the streets of Las Vegas and North Las Vegas on Wednesday and successfully ...

Sutter, who was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Ronald Reagan in 1985, is now a speaker and author of 747: Creating the World’s First Jumbo Jet and Other Adventures from a ...

The 747 jumbo jet has taken on numerous roles--a cargo plane, a commercial aircraft capable of carrying nearly 500 passengers, and the Air Force One presidential aircraft--since it debuted in 1969.

At any given moment hundreds of people are soaring above us in a 747. From the moment the very first jumbo jet took off in 1969, it has been the aircraft against which all others are judged.

One that is destined to serve as its flagship for decades to come and finally the replace the legendary 747 jumbo jet. That day, the attention of the world's press was indeed trained upon Boeing.