Boeing 747-8, which shares much of the technology of the 787 Dreamliner
Airlines including Emirates and British Airways considered ordering the 747-8 Intercontinental, but opted to purchase the Airbus A380 instead.
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In 2000, Boeing offered the 747X and 747X Stretch derivatives as alternatives to the Airbus A3XX.
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The 747-8, as the current new development of Boeing's largest airliner, is notably in direct competition on long-haul routes with the Airbus A380, a full-length double-deck aircraft now in service.
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As the IUPF prepares to attack the silos, Antares Squadron is hired to pilot Andre Olivieri's personal Boeing 747-200B over Valahia-controlled territory.
In 2003, Air Atlanta Icelandic expanded into the United Kingdom with its subsidiary, Air Atlanta Europe, which operated Boeing 747s ad-hoc, charter and for the Florida tour operator, Travel City Direct.
Beyond the primary domestic spokes, players can also purchase foreign spokes and jumbo jets.
The contract was eventually won by Airbus in 1988, with an order for 34 Airbus A320s, as well as the sale of some of Air Canada's existing Boeing 747 fleet.
A Boeing 747–100 was used in the film Airport 1975, registration number N9675, which was delivered to the carrier in 1971.
During February 2008, a mixture of babassu oil and coconut oil was used to partially power one engine of a Boeing 747, in a biofuel trial sponsored by Virgin Atlantic Airways.
An infamous and rare example of where backtracking was used for large commercial aircraft was the Tenerife airport disaster, where two Boeing 747s at Tenerife North Airport were required to backtaxi in order to position themselves for take-off.
The runway will be 2870 m long by 45 m wide, and capable of handling aircraft to 747 size.
British Airways Flight 149 was a flight from London Heathrow Airport to Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport, (the former international airport for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), via Kuwait City and Madras (now called Chennai) operated by British Airways Boeing 747-136.
He returned in 1973, following a period of corporate mismanagement and scandal, although he retired again less than a year later, stating that he was "working in a 747 era with a DC-6 state of mind."
The chain of event links to the Los Rodeos airplane accident with the highest number of fatalities to date, when two Boeing 747 airliners collided resulting in the death of 583 people but the competent authorities recognised later that the accident was a human error.
the Helderberg air disaster of 1987 which claimed 159 lives when an SAA Boeing 747, the Helderberg, crashed into the sea north-east of Mauritius.
China Airlines Flight 358 was a Boeing 747-2R7F freighter plane that crashed on December 29, 1991 shortly after takeoff from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taipei, Taiwan.
The airline provides thrice-weekly services from Luanda to Houston on a Boeing 747-400 (10 First Class, 143 Business Class and 36 Economy Class seats) operated by Atlas Air.
By 1980, the base had grown to such an extent that weekly Flying Tigers Boeing 747 service to St. Louis (via Kadena AB Japan; Anchorage; and Los Angeles) had begun.
Joe Sutter (born 1921), the "father of the Boeing 747," son of Franz Suhadolz (1879–1945), an emigrant from Dobrova
The airstrip will be able to receive large aircraft including the Airbus A380 and the Boeing 747.
It is capable of accepting widebodied aircraft such as the Boeing 747, Boeing 767, and Airbus A340.
Lucien's 17-year-old daughter Dalila along with her aunt Ana Marie Shorter, wife of jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter, were killed when N93119, the Boeing 747 airliner on TWA Flight 800 carrying 230 passengers bound for Paris, France, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Long Island, New York, shortly after take-off from John F. Kennedy International Airport on July 17, 1996.
The Krueger flaps developed for the Boeing 747 were constructed from fiberglass honeycomb material and were designed to be intentionally distorted into an aerofoil section on deployment.
All of the Qantas Boeing 747-400's have "Longreach" printed on both sides of the first jetway entry/exit doors.
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The town is now the home of the Qantas Founders Outback Museum, which includes amongst its displays a decommissioned Qantas Boeing 747-200 aircraft, registration VH-EBQ, "The City of Bunbury." and QANTAS's first jet aircraft VH-XBA (formerly VH-EBA), a Boeing 707, "The City of Canberra.".
Rotor diameters are comparable to the wingspan of a Boeing 747.
The episode ends as the Trotter Brothers board their Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 plane to America (comically bumping into Richard Branson; "anybody would think he owned the plane" says Del).
They were nicknamed Jumbos, their 1971 delivery coinciding with that of Qantas' first Boeing 747s.
She has for a number of years been attempting to obtain a Boeing 747 for inclusion into the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
In an advertising campaign, also documented on the television show Fifth Gear, a Volkswagen Touareg was used to pull a Boeing 747.
The airfield is also well able to handle larger aircraft types such as the C-5 Galaxy and Boeing 747.
Its extension permits operations with jumbo jets, such as the Boeing 747-400, which can carry 290 passengers and 62 tons of cargo or Airbus A330/340.
It was originally designed for the Boeing 747 for their air tables, hydroforming dyes, vacuum chuck faces, work holders, and proofing materials.
Ohakea is a secondary diversion airport for heavy civilian aircraft such as the Boeing 747 and Boeing 777 if both Auckland and Christchurch airports are temporarily closed.
When he learned that it would take more than a week to evacuate the surviving orphans due to the lack of military transport planes, Macauley chartered a Boeing 747 from Pan American World Airways and arranged for 300 orphaned children to leave the country, paying for the trip by mortgaging his house.
Two examples of the sometimes shocking humor of the Radio Hour are sketches which featured game shows entitled "Catch it and Keep it" (prizes - some quite lethal - are dropped from a great height to the crowd below), and "Land a Million" (in which a housewife is left alone in an airborne Boeing 747 containing $1 million in cash and a ton of TNT and must answer questions about literature in order to receive tips on how to land the plane safely).
In 2006, fifteen virtual flying enthusiasts used a full-sized simulator of a Boeing 747-400 in Australia to conduct a 130-hour round-the-world trip, for which Qantas Airways provided the food and VATSIM provided air traffic control.
After retiring from active duty, Roy worked as a commercial airline pilot for United Airlines flying Boeing 747s.
On March 27, 1977, Bragg was the first officer for Pan Am Flight 1736, one of the Boeing 747s lost in the Tenerife airport disaster.