A Lufthansa 747 touched down late on LAX's runway 24R, then aborted the landing so abruptly its tail nearly scraped the ...
Widebodies can cost tens upon tens of thousands of dollars an hour to run.
Through the heat haze, airplane tails rose from the desert. As I steered off the interstate toward Pinal Airpark, in Marana, Arizona, I got my first view of a corpse in full: a stark-white Boeing 747, ...
The 747 transcended aviation and became an iconic silhouette.
The 747 was virtually untouchable until the last 20 years.