Which Airlines Still Fly The Boeing 747 On Its 55th Flight Anniversary?
Some 55 years after the first commercial flight of the Boeing 747, four airlines still fly passenger versions, including ...
I stayed in a Boeing 747 hotel and got to sleep in the cockpit with sole access to the first class cabin
A Northamptonshire student stayed in a Boeing 747 hotel, where she had access to the former first class cabin and could walk ...
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"We spent the night in a plane hotel and got to sleep in a Boeing 747 cockpit"
A couple of plane spotters spent the night in a plane hotel - and got to sleep in the cockpit of a Boeing 747 aircraft.
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A space shuttle was ready to launch from Vandenberg. What scrapped the $2.5 billion plan?
The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot ... Tribune file That was all in the future as a Boeing 747 jet carried a Space Shuttle to Vandenberg (then ...
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Lockheed Martin, Boeing Defense Among 45 US Entities Penalised By China
Among those were a subsidiary of Boeing Defense named Insitu. Taiwan, officially known as the Republic of China, is a flashpoint between Beijing and Washington. Beijing claims the entire island ...
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Royal New Zealand Air Force Wants 737s or A321s to Replace Aging Boeing 757s
The SAOC program to replace the E-4B Nightwatch appears to be proceeding at pace, involving second hand Boeing 747 aircraft but contracted instead to Sierra Nevada Corporation. Should this ...
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Passengers fearful of crash left in a panic after ‘terrifying’ Boeing 737-800 flight fails to take off — twice
A planeload of panicky passengers were sent back to the terminal after their aircraft failed to take off — not once but twice — in Thailand. Pilots manning the Nok Air Boeing 737-800 ...
The Star22d
Mechanical failure likely caused Jeju Air plane crash, not bird strike: Aviation lawyer
The Boeing 737-800, which was the model that crashed at the airport in Muan on Sunday, is the precursor to the US aircraft manufacturer’s 737 Max. "A bird strike is unlikely to have interfered ...
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South Korea plane crash investigation underway, with Jeju Air jet's cockpit voice recorder heading to U.S.
South Korean officials have vowed to find out what caused a Boeing 737-800 passenger jet ... ordered an immediate inspection of all 737-800 aircraft operated by the country's airlines — dozens ...
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South Korea says initial data extracted from Jeju Air cockpit recorder
Investigators probing the deadly crash of Jeju Air Flight 2216 in South Korea have retrieved the initial data from one of the aircraft ... since a Korean Air Boeing 747 crashed into a Guam ...
Wall Street Journal22d
Intel’s Grim Lesson for Boeing: Sometimes Mr. Fix-It Is Too Late
One day, fickle investors are applauding business-school alumni for paying big dividends and slashing costs. The next, they’re demanding that engineers take over to make up for lost innovation ...
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What We Know About Jeju Air Crash: 179 Dead In South Korea As Investigators Probe Cause
The crash is South Korea’s deadliest plane disaster since a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 plane crashed in Guam in 1997, killing 228 people. Jeju Air's chief executive Kim Yi-bae spoke at a news ...