Boeing 747-400 Also in 1985, Boeing announced a brand-new variant of the iconicBoeing 747, the -400. Boeing aimed to increase its operating range with a larger wingspan and the addition of canted winglets. This was the first time the canted winglets were officially introduced to the commer...
Even 25 years after the B777 was first unveiled, it is still a hard act for the Boeing design team to follow. When it was revealed to the world in June 1994 it was the first computer-designed airliner, the first fly-by-wire airliner, and as the aircraft proved itself in service, it ...
“The 777-8X sits right on top of the A350-1000 in terms of size, but has a range advantage and is slightly more fuel efficient. And then we have the [larger] -9X, which gives us the ability to go into that territory that is unchallenged, which is really, really great,” s...
—little more than half the wingspan of a Boeing 747-400. That 12-sec. flight changed the world, lifting it to new heights of freedom and giving mankind access to places it had never before dreamed of reaching. Although the Wright brothers’ feat was to transform life in the 20th ...
The Boeing 747 'Wunala Dreaming' was the first jet in the Qantas 'Flying Art' series. Later additions to the Flying Art family included a Boeing 737 and Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Leading Indigenous Australian design agency Balarinji has worked with Qantas to create the fuselage design for all Fl...
The launch airline for the 767 was United Airlines, and it made its first commercial flight from Chicago to Denver in September 1982. Boeing developed extended range and stretched variants of the original 767-200. Photo: Boeing Extended range and stretched variants Seeing the potential for the...
Twenty-five years before the Malaysia Airlines mystery, one of the most dramatic events in aviation unfolded in the skies over Iowa as heroic pilots battled to land a crippled DC-10.
diverts too many crops from too many mouths. India has set aside 100 million acres for jatropha and expects the oil to account for 20% of its diesel consumption by 2011. Australia, China, Brazil and Kenya have also embraced it. In December, a Boeing 747 was successfully test-flown by ...
UPS pilots operate Boeing 747, 757, and 767 jets, along with Airbus A300 and McDonnell Douglas MD-11 aircraft. In addition to Louisville, pilots are based out of these U.S. cities: Atlanta, Georgia Dallas, Texas Ontario, California Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Rockfor...
It used to have a small fleet of Boeing 777-200LRs and ERs, but these were all retired in 2020 as part of its fleet reductions during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the -LRs that used to ply Delta’s longest routes, but that torch has now been passed to theA350-900. ...