This was the Boeing 747SP, a rare moment in airliner history when a manufacturer decided that the route to more range was ...

The Boeing 747 has long been considered to be an icon in the passenger aviation sector, and this writer remembers having a cast-iron model of a British Airways 747 as a child. Among the many ...

A rare jumbo jet with a production run closer to Concorde than other Boeing widebodies. What made the 747SP so unique?

A decommissioned Boeing 747 jumbo jet fuselage that was once used at Northern Nevada’s Burning Man festival taxied the streets of Las Vegas and North Las Vegas on Wednesday and successfully arrived at ...

That's because the ideal aircraft fuselage should be a seamless cylinder. Putting in windows violates the structural integrity of the hull, producing weak spots where stresses can concentrate. They ...

PARIS, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Airbus (AIR.PA), opens new tab engineers have found defects on a wider set of A320 fuselage panels as they prepare to inspect hundreds of jets for a flaw that the company's ...

A research team at Drexel University's College of Engineering, led by Professors Ahmad R. Najafi, Jonathan Awerbuch, and Tein-Min Tan of mechanical engineering and mechanics, has developed a new way ...