The Boeing 747 is quite possibly the most iconic airplane in aviation history. Everyone knows what the 747 is, even if they ...

Rolls Royce retires its iconic Boeing 747-200 testbed, N787RR, after nearly 20 years of groundbreaking engine trials, ...

Jet engines have increased in size since they were first developed in the 1940s. This is because bigger engines improve ...

Boeing wants to pass the baton on to the twin-engine Boeing 777X, even as its deliveries have seen massive delays. Still, the hump that came into being as a workaround for a cargo hinge lives on ...

Of the four major manufacturers of aircraft engines, which build jet engines for Boeing? Which planes' engines do they build?

There are 25,000 blue whales, an animal to which the jumbo jet is frequently compared, navigating the planet, but now only ...

Hundreds of aviation enthusiasts waited for more than an hour just to get an inside look of a historic 747 airliner at EAA ...

The U.S. government and Qatar will finalize a deal next week for Qatar to give the U.S. Air Force a jet to be Air Force One.

General Electric is transporting a revised configuration GEnx-2B engine to Victorville, Calif., for final flight tests on the company’s 747 flying testbed as Boeing builds up toward first flight ...

Boeing has completed installation of the General Electric GEnx-2B engines on the first 747-8 Freighter and is running through rudder proof tests prior to the installation of the tail on the second ...