When British Airways 9 and KLM 867 flew into volcanic ash clouds and suffered total engine failure, their crews fought ...

The US president flies on Air Force One. Other countries have their own presidential planes. Boeing 747 jumbo jets and Airbus A330 and A340 planes are popular options for world leaders. The Boeing ...

In the early 1990s, McDonnell Douglas proposed the MD-12, a massive double deck airliner designed to rival the Boeing 747 and predate the Airbus A380. Promising lower costs and high capacity, the ...

1969 was a momentous year for America: the Apollo 11 space mission, the first test flight for the Concorde, the passenger flight for the Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet, the draft lottery for the Vietnam War, ...

Making the wings on passenger jets thinner and longer can go a long way toward reducing drag and making them more efficient, but they vibrate like crazy. Engineers at NASA and Boeing are now tackling ...

A Boeing 777-9 prepares to land at Al-Maktoum International Airport during the Dubai Airshow 2025 on November 17, 2025. Emirates ordered 65 Boeing 777X planes in a deal worth $38 billion, delivering a ...

The final Boeing 747 ever made departed Everett Field Wednesday morning at 8:19 a.m. The 747-800 aircraft flew to Cincinnati, where it will become a freighter f Boeing bid farewell to an icon on ...

Air cargo usually brings to mind electronics or oranges - but the skies often carry far stranger freight. From spacecraft to human organs and more, aircraft have moved some truly bizarre cargo. In ...

STATESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Federal investigators are trying to figure out why a business jet carrying retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and six others tried to return to a North Carolina airport just ...