More than five decades after the first 747 took flight, the last “Queen of the Skies” has come off the Everett assembly line. To mark the moment, we spoke with workers who built the iconic airplane ...
A flight engineer (FE) is a member of the flight crew who is responsible for monitoring and operating the aircraft's complex systems. Their role is to monitor and manage the aircraft's engines and ...
Through the heat haze, airplane tails rose from the desert. As I steered off the interstate toward Pinal Airpark, in Marana, Arizona, I got my first view of a corpse in full: a stark-white Boeing 747, ...
The debut of the Boeing 747 was a huge event 40 years ago, and next Saturday some of those who were part of the plane's development at the Museum of Flight. At 2 p.m., some of the original pilots of ...