NASA has converted a 747 jumbo jet into a flying telescope. The Stratospheric Observatory of Infrared Astronomy flies high above the clouds to capture information about the stars. Video courtesy ...

GE's Boeing 747 testbed took to the skies for several days, trailed by a NASA jet that conducted three-dimensional imaging of contrails for continuing study. Contrails are clouds made of ice ...

The model was also chosen by NASA to transport the Columbia and Atlantis space shuttles. In recent years, the 747 began to lag behind other models because its four engines are too fuel-demanding ...

NASA's Gulfstream G-III will use lidar technology to scan contrails of GE's Boeing 747 An inflight engine failure suffered by a cargo 747-400 involved a smaller version of the PW4000 that failed ...