Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Boeing 747 is one of the most popular exhibits at the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta. This particular plane was the first Boeing ...

Born in a factory so large that clouds once formed within it, the 747-100 was nearly twice as long as the Wright brothers’ entire first flight. Aviation historian Martin Bowman has written that during ...

The jet was perhaps the pinnacle of American engineering excellence. Its retirement signals an end to an era of American ...