There are times when you're sitting in a best-in-the-sky Boeing 747 waiting on the tarmac, with nothing to do but watch another 747 in the distance get filled with fuel. A fueling truck slides up to ...

Even to the uninitiated, theBoeing 747 has long been one of the most recognizable airliners in the history of commercial aviation. The iconic double-decker widebody quadjet burst onto the scene in the ...

At 01:52 EST on January 22, 1970 an aviation legend made its first paying passenger flight. The Boeing 747 Pan Am flight from JFK to London Heathrow was the first commercial flight to feature a plane ...

Boeing's very first jetliner, the 707, began commercial flights in 1958. A scant 10 years later, the demand for air travel was so great that Boeing unveiled its new 747 to the world, which held more ...

With its four engines, the 747 uses vast quantities of fuel, burning through 3,800 gallons every hour. This high fuel burn amounts to 0.9 gallons used every second and 0.19 miles per gallon (mpg).