On June 20, 1981, Theresa Claiborne was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force’s first Black female pilot, Claiborne would become the first Black woman to command and ...

The Boeing Business Jet or BBJ as it is known in its shortened form, is a Boeing airliner that has been converted for the ...

Eleven people have been left injured after a Lufthansa flight was hit by turbulence. The Boeing 747-8 aircraft, which was ...

A modified version of Boeing 747-400, this massive aircraft is used to transport the fuselage sections of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. It has a wingspan of 64.4 meters and a length of 67.1 meters 8.

Iberia Airlines flew the first commercial flight of the Airbus A321XLR on November 6, the beginning of an era of ultra-long ...

When British Airways picked the American industrial conglomerate General Electric over the longstanding aircraft engine ...

According to a Bloomberg report, Cathay Pacific hopes to place an order for its long-haul fleet next year. The company ...

Boeing even lost out in a contest to build a replacement for the Air Force’s flying command center — the “Doomsday plane” — which is based on its own 747 Jumbo Jet. Critics said a string ...

the Boeing 747-8. Even then, on a weekly basis, seats should be reduced by 7.8% year-on-year (YoY), with Austrian Airlines ...

With 42,000 lbs of thrust behind it, the original made a name for itself, powering the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar and some Boeing 747 Transport units as well ... and the Boeing 787 Dreamliner-- one of ...

Boeing’s 747 is big, but not so big that the forward fuselage can’t be part of a museum exhibit Bob van der Linden F. Robert van der Linden is a curator who specializes in commercial aviation.

One week after the end of a 53-day-long strike at Boeing, the planemaker is initiating its plan to turn things around. That includes restarting production in the Seattle area and giving money to ...