Scaled Composites Model 351 Stratolaunch The Stratolaunch ... Airbus A380-800 The Airbus A380, Airbus' modern response to Boeing's famed 747, is the largest passenger plane ever built.

Threeairlines operate the Boeing 747-8i, while most passenger 747-400s can be found flying with a Lufthansalivery, currently the world's largest passenger 747 operator. However, the oldest ...

A gigantic financial gamble at the start, the 747 paid off big for Boeing. Eighty-nine countries have used it to move people and freight (here leaving Anchorage, Alaska) around the globe.

Seattle native Joe Sutter is best known for leading Boeing’s 4,500-member design team for the 747, the largest commercial airliner ever built. After serving in the U.S. Navy on a destroyer ...

This also came at a time when point-to-point networks began to gain ascendency over the typical hub-and-spoke business model. Boeing announced the 747-8 program in 2005 - initially dubbed the 747 ...

While many airlines around the world have stopped operating the 747, the freighter version remains one of the great ...

They’re massive pieces of engineering that seem to defy physics as they hang in the air during takeoff and landing, but double-decker passenger airplanes — the Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 ...