Four veteran 747-400s still soar beyond 100,000 flight hours, defying retirement deadlines and showcasing remarkable aviation ...

Welcome back to the Fluctus Channel for a video on the use by US forces of massive lasers in targeting everything from missiles to transmitting electricity. Fluctus is a website and YouTube channel ...

The aircraft in question is the Boeing 747, often called the "Queen of the Skies". Known for its double-decker design and groundbreaking size, the plane revolutionised air travel when it first ...

Curt Gottshall, current engineering chief pilot for Boeing’s 747-8 program ... Indeed, pilots who have flown the 747 relate that she’s a gentle giant, with relatively benign handling ...

However, that excitement got Boeing to thinking: its 747 might not be ideal for commercial ... Engineers decided to turn the front of the plane into a giant door. The nose would open up, making ...

There are times when you're sitting in a best-in-the-sky Boeing 747 waiting on the tarmac ... connects one end of a giant fuel hose to the underground fuel manifold line, connects the other ...

Today the aerospace giant is one of its most troubled ... delivery of the last Boeing 747 aircraft, at the Boeing Future of Flight Museum in Everett, Washington, on January 31, 2023.

The airplane is a commercial 747-400 jet called "Cosmic Girl," and the orbital-class rocket is named "LauncherOne." Virgin Orbit aims to use the retrofitted jet to tow LauncherOne as high above ...

Sir Richard Branson's space company, Virgin Orbit, just completed its final developmental test with its Boeing 747-400 jet turned satellite launcher and a fully-fueled "captive carry" rocket ...