NASA's space shuttle was a large, heavy vehicle, and needed an even larger, heavier low-wing aircraft to transport it across ...

Boeing faced a problem with long-range routes that couldn't fill a full-size 747, so it came up with a very simple solution: ...

GE completed the first dust-ingestion test campaign for the GE9X in 2022 after amassing more than 1,600 engine run cycles.

“I don’t see the business case,” AeroDynamic Managing Director Richard Aboulafia says. According to Airbus A380 champion ...

NASA's giant Mars Antenna failure hinders spacecraft communication and asteroid studies amid the federal government shutdown.

An aviation marvel that redefined flight and cargo, the Boeing 747 remains a triumph of engineering even after its production ...

A UPS cargo plane crashed Tuesday at an airport in Louisville, Kentucky, where the company operates its largest package ...

The Boeing 747 has taken many forms in its decades of service. First introduced in 1970, the Queen of the Skies has flown for airlines all over the world. It has also had a handful of side gigs over ...

The “Queen of the Skies” — Boeing’s iconic 747 — is getting the royal treatment again, this time as a fully managed VIP experience from Boeing. Boeing Business Jets has introduced a turnkey program ...

From the outside, apart from that weird hump, the E-4B Doomsday Plane could be mistaken for a standard Boeing 747, or at least a presidential one. In reality, it's a plane that serves a very specific ...

Sierra Nevada’s first test flight of the Survivable Airborne Operations Center marks a major step in replacing the aging E-4B “Nightwatch” fleet introduced in the 1970s. The E-4C Survivable Airborne ...