You can visit a retired 747 at Cotswold Airport in Kemble, Gloucestershire, where tours of the plane are offered. In the run-up to the festive season two-hour The Flight Before Christmas events ...
Atlas Air, an American cargo airline, took delivery of the last 747 to be manufactured on Thursday morning. The crew flew a special flight path, drawing a huge crown in the sky with the numbers ...
The Boeing 747 not only democratised air travel but romanticised it, too. It introduced the joy of flight to thousands who could not previously afford it and became the pin-up of the Jet Age.
Back in June, the airport apologised after breaching the night limit by 747 flights the previous summer. At that time Leeds City Council issued a breach of condition notice, warning failure to ...
When the Boeing 747 was taken for a test flight in 1968, the pilot, David P. Davies, described it as “a most impressive aeroplane with a number of exceptionally fine qualities.