The Boeing 747, dubbed "The Queen of the Skies" has a long, storied history in aviation. Here is everything we know about ...

The United States military has a long legacy of using modified civilian planes in military applications. Here are a few you ...

While the A380 is bigger, it has a slightly lower cruising speed than the 747. The Boeing 707 and DC-8 were capable of flying at impressive speeds and outpaced older quadjets. The Boeing 747 is ...

In the 1940s, if you were in a hurry and needed to travel across the continental United States, the fastest option was to hop inside one of the many propeller-driven planes of that era. The ...

Eisenhower was the first president to travel on a jet aircraft in 1959. Eisenhower's Boeing 707 Stratoliner, nicknamed "Queenie," featured a section for telecommunications, room for 40 passengers ...

The RC-135S is a militarized Boeing 707 civilian airliner and is equipped with a sophisticated array of optical and electronic sensors, recording media, and communications equipment, is a national ...

Four Pratt & Whitney TF33-P-5 turbofans with thrust reversers The WC-135 Constant Phoenix is a militarized version of the Boeing 707 commercial airliner which is used to verify compliance of the ...

This is the second time a plane crash has rocked the figure skating community. On Feb. 15, 1961, a Boeing 707 traveling from New York to the world championships in Czechoslovakia crashed on approach ...