HONOLULU — United Airlines promised that its last-ever passenger flight on the Boeing ... all wearing throwback uniforms from the 1970s as part of United’s retro theme meant to evoke the 747 ...

Sutter, who became known as ‘the father of the 747’, fought to keep his engineers from being hived off to other projects. “With all this other business at Boeing, there wasn’t just a ...

Air travel did have a Golden Age. There was more space, classier interiors and bolder designs. You don’t even have to go back to the 50s and 60s to see that. Here are some of the actual cabin ...

The 747 is composed of about six million parts produced all ... A view inside the interior of the craft. The 747’s long life is remarkable partly because its start was so uncertain. Boeing ...

Qantas operated an all-747 fleet for six years (1979-85) after it retired its last Boeing 707 ... Many airlines did not share Pan Am’s views about the 747. The aircraft’s sheer size was ...

Until the emergence of Boeing’s 747-8 as a firm programme last year ... few would dispute Airbus’s view that the all-new A380 design with its double widebody-deck configuration will provide ...

In the late 1960s, the Boeing 747 was regarded as a huge risk that had ... 16,000 projects in 136 countries. They included all projects for which they could find data, not just ones that fit ...

Five-star carrier Korean Air is one of the last operators of the mammoth Boeing 747-8i jumbo jet ... the other two being Singapore Airlines and Japan's All Nippon Airways. I flew economy on ...

It was late 2007 and I was in the cockpit of a Hong Kong-bound Boeing 747 ... to go yet on the 747, and as we cruise at our initial altitude of 31,000ft, the stunning views below — of Barcelona ...

As the hangar of Boeing’s Everett assembly plant opens its massive gates, she comes into view: the last 747-8 freighter plane ... Eckley said, “All good things come to an end, and so it ...

Boeing’s 747, the original and arguably most aesthetic ... “It was transformational across all aspects of the industry,” the senior consultant at Ascend by Cirium added.