The Boeing 777’s 14-tire main landing gear may seem excessive at first glance, but it’s a highly calculated engineering ...

The 747-400 made its entry into service in February 1989 and attracted huge interest from carriers across the globe. Boeing's ...

Boeing's first Seahawks 747 rolled out in January 2014 (scroll down for photos) to help celebrate the team's National Football Conference Championship and appearance in Super Bowl XLVIII.

This work focuses on evaluating the robustness of an incremental backstepping strategy applied for automatic control of a Boeing 747 (B747). A sensitivity analysis is carried out to quantify the ...

Two well-preserved Roman shoes from 2,000 years ago were recently found by volunteers at the Magna fort in the United Kingdom. The find "immediately drew impressed gasps" from the staff.

Another workhorse of international aviation, the Boeing 747, has a fuel capacity of about 183,380 litres (48,400 gallons). During a typical 10-hour flight, a 747 might burn as much as 150,000 litres ...

The Boeing 747 starts well, with some very impressive mechanisms within the fuselage to deploy and raise the landing gear – Lego's Concorde is another set with a neat approach to the same, but the ...

This drone has a wingspan larger than a Boeing 747 and can carry payloads of up to 881 pounds (400 kg). This significantly improved over previous solar UAVs, which had limited use because they ...

At around 11:25 p.m. on March 5, 1999, an Air France Boeing 747 freighter aircraft (AF-6745), carrying five crew members and 66 tonnes of assorted cargo, attempted to land at Chennai Airport in ...

He walked away from the crash site with only minor injuries. The sole survivor is doing well in hospital but is "psychologically disturbed," according to the Civil Hospital medical director.