For half a century, the Boeing 747 was a titan of long-haul travel ... the cost of the jumbo jet alter significantly over the years. For instance, when Pan Am got the 747 program up and running with ...

Experience the next level of Songkran celebration at the HEAVEN747 Songkran Festival 2025 — the first-ever Songkran Festival hosted aboard a real Boeing 747 aircraft. From 13-15 April, the heart of ...

The Boeing 747 has been a crucial part of global cargo transport for decades. Below is a breakdown of its various freighter variants, with help from Boeing 747, highlighting key specifications, ...

Exhibits include the first Boeing 747-400 ever built and a working Boeing ... More than 200 items from airlines like Pan Am, Northwest, and Western have been arranged into the colors of the ...

"The Utka is larger than a US Boeing 747 jet airplane and flies at about 250 knots [287 mph]. One Utka has been built." They added: "We believe that an Utka strike force or coastal defense force would ...

The 707 was soon busy in American skies. Pan Am flew the inaugural service, from New York (the then-Idlewild) to Paris Le Bourget, on October 26 1958 – competing with the Douglas DC-8 and (to a ...

The crashed Pan Am plane in Lockerbie in 1988. (Image credit: Shutterstock) On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed by a bomb 38 minutes after take-off. It had flown from London Heathrow ...

On 21 December 1988, flight Pan Am 103 was en route from Heathrow to JFK when a bomb exploded in its hold over Lockerbie, killing 270 people, including 43 British citizens and 190 Americans.

On that fateful day of March 27, 1977, there were 583 fatalities between the KLM Boeing 747 and the Pan Am Boeing 747 ‘Clipper Maid of the Seas”. Only 61 survivors somehow escaped the inferno that ...

March 26 (UPI) --The BBC and Netflix released the first photos from upcoming limited series The Bombing of Pan Am 103 ... people on a flight from London's Heathrow Airport to New York on Dec ...