The Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental successfully began its flight test program Monday taking off from Paine Field in Everett, Washington state, before more than several thousand employees ...

T he Boeing 747 program has given us icons of the skies like the earlier 747-100 and 747-200 models, as well as the ...

A Lufthansa Boeing 747-8 flight from Miami to Frankfurt was forced to make an emergency landing after its captain became ...

The final 747—a 747-8 model—left the production line for its ... or Jack Waddell, Boeing’s chief test pilot who took the first 747 on its initial flight on February 9, 1969.

DALLAS — Today at 11:34 PST, in 1969, the prototype Boeing 747 took to the skies from Seattle, Washington, for the first time ...

The Boeing 747-8 has a cruising speed of Mach 0.86 ... breaking the sound barrier during a test flight. As reported by Aerotime, the aircraft, registration A6-CJE, had spent about two years ...