When the first Boeing 747 rolled from the hangar in Everett ... Seven years later, I was a passenger on the inaugural 747-400 flight from New York to Tokyo. Everyone onboard was given a ...

Passengers love Boeing 747s and Airbus A380s, AKA the world’s biggest commercial jets, but they’re slowly being phased out.

A gigantic financial gamble at the start, the 747 paid off big for Boeing ... we raise the nose, the flight deck is high in the air before the back end comes off the ground.” ...