May 12th, 2009 at 2:00PM: Development of Boeing's 747-800, heralded as a direct competitor to the A380 has been underway for several years now. The super jumbo jet will feature many of the same engineering marvels that the 787 will, including swept wings, cut engine nacelles and similar cockpit controls, and will some day be the largest commercial airplane built in the western hemisphere. So far, however, nobody has seen ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Boeing releases snazzy new 747-800 interiors
May 12th, 2009 at 2:00PM: Development of Boeing's 747-800, heralded as a direct competitor to the A380 has been underway for several years now. The super jumbo jet will feature many of the same engineering marvels that the 787 will, including swept wings, cut engine nacelles and similar cockpit controls, and will some day be the largest commercial airplane built in the western hemisphere. So far, however, nobody has seen ...Why you don't stand near the jet engine on the tarmac
Panic after fighter jets escort 747 around Manhattan
So long, Northwest 747's
Do not be scared about the burning 747 at Schiphol airport
Jan 5th, 2009 at 2:30PM: Imagine arriving at your Amsterdam airport hotel room and the first thing you see out the window is a burning Jumbo with a bunch of crash tenders on the runway. It took me about 10 seconds to remember passing the "jet' when we taxied to the terminal, and realizing that it wasn't actually a real plane, but the practice jet for the airport fire department. Jerry wrote about these practice runs ...Galley Gossip: Where did the service go?
Dec 30th, 2008 at 10:30AM:
Recently I read an interesting article in the New York Times, Up, Up, and Go Away, about an ex flight attendant who worked for TWA in the 1970's when flight attendants were known as stewardesses and stewardesses were as glamorous as movie stars and passengers were treated like royalty and flying was..well...just better - in every way possible! The stewardess featured in the article above wrote ...Spend the night in a Jumbo without leaving the ground
Sep 4th, 2008 at 5:30PM: In December, Stockholm airport will be home to the first Boeing 747 hostel in the world. This 747-200 was built in 1976 and is currently being converted into a 25 room hostel with 3 beds per room. Each room features a flat panel TV, wireless Internet access and a shared shower/toilet facility. The upper deck of this 747 has several more luxurious rooms with their own bathroom facility. For the ...Video of 747 struck by lightning
Rich heiress builds California house out of scrap 747
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Jun 29th, 2008 at 4:00PM: Your house is definitely not the coolest on the block unless its made out of jumbo jet pieces. Francie Rehwald, daughter to a family owning multiple Mercedes Benz dealerships across California, just started construction on her new house made completely out of fragments of a scrapped Boeing 747. For forty thousand dollars, Rehwald purchased the pieces from an airplane junk yard in the Mojave Desert ...The biggest plane ever built
Feb 17th, 2008 at 9:00AM: I just saw The Aviator, director Martin Scorsese's 2004 blockbuster with Leonardo DiCaprio as aviation tycoon Howard Hughes. It's a pretty entertaining movie that really gives you a glimpse into the airline industry's early days--when Pan-American was pretty much the only business in town. The story does feel a little dragged out and pretty early on, you already get the picture that Hughes is a ...BA 747 narrowly escapes a mid-air collision
Nov 8th, 2007 at 1:00PM: I'm constantly extolling the virtues of flying, telling my fearful friends how safe it is -- much more so than driving, suntanning, crossing the street, etc. So I always cringe a bit when I hear stories about plane crashes or near crashes. Like this one: A British Airways 747, bound for Johannesburg, narrowly missed crashing into a Argentinian747 in the airspace over Marseilles, France, much to ...
