the newest member of the 747 family took off at 9:59 a.m. and landed at 2:24 p.m. local time. “What a great privilege to be at the controls of such a great airplane on its first flight,” said ...

Late this year, they will begin to fly the huge Boeing 747 jets, which are faster, quieter, bigger and potentially much more profitable than the 707s and DC-8s. In the first test flight last week ...

It was eventually decided that Boeing was better off designing a ... on designing the Boeing 747. It did not take long for the Boeing 747 team to encounter the first of the mammoth challenges ...