The 747-8i is now approaching its 13th year in commercial service. The German flag carrier Lufthansa introduced the type in ...

The GEnx engines would propel the 747-8 model to a cruising speed of Mach 0.86 (573 knots / 660 miles per hour) at a range of 7,730 nautical miles (8,900 statute miles / 14,320 km), effectively ...

And on Monday, it happened: the 747-8 Freighter, the next generation ... The plane also features GEnx-2B67 engines, similar to the GEnx engines that will power the 787 Dreamliner.

its four General Electric GEnx 2B engines consume 16 percent less fuel per seat than do the engines on the current-gen 747-400, and 11 percent less than the A380. As well, Boeing lauds the ...

The passenger model's plug is between doors one ... 66,500lb-thrust (296kN), which although derived from the 787's GEnx-1B, are optimised for the 747-8. The engines share the same core and 80% ...

The 787 can be powered by either GEnx engines or rival Trent 1000 engines made by Rolls-Royce Plc (LSE:RR.), while the 747-8 is powered exclusively by the GE engine model.

Until the emergence of Boeing’s 747-8 as a firm programme last year ... Powered by a bleed-enabled version of the 787’s General Electric GEnx, the new family incorporates a slight stretch ...

but the commercial model comes with four General Electric GEnx-2B engines. It's predecessor? Mach .84 with four General Electric CF6-80C2B1 engines. The 747-8 will also have the record of being ...

we can extrapolate that the fuel efficiency of this model is 0.117 mpg or 0.050 kpg. Next up, let's look at the 747-800 passenger variant. This was powered by four GE GEnx-2B engines, each of ...

The aircraft is eight years old, Flightradar24 data showed. The 747-8 model is powered by four General Electric GEnx engines, according to Boeing’s website. GE was not immediately available for ...

Outwardly, the VC-25B is to resemble the 747-8I passenger model of the GEnx-2B-powered Boeing widebody, but many of the internal systems and structures should be unrecognizable. Under a $4.9 ...