The Boeing 747-400 is the most popular variant of the esteemed Boeing 747 family, with 694 examples delivered over the course of 20 years from 1989 to 2009. It became the flagship of almost every ...

The 747-300 proved that later variants could shine.

A floppy disk did what thumb drives do, back when we talked about megabytes instead of terabytes. It might seem crazy that the 400 remaining Boeing 747s used by airlines and shipping companies around ...

In the early 1970s, the U.S. Air Force, one of the largest air forces in the world, tasked Boeing with exploring an idea that sounded like pure science fiction: turning its brand-new 747 jumbo jet ...