The Australian Queen of the Skies has been dethroned. Qantas's final Boeing 747 departed from Australia for the last time on Wednesday en route to retirement, marking the end of a nearly 50-year ...

Considered to compete directly with the Airbus A380, the Boeing 747-9 was conceived as a way to stretch the full upper deck ...

Indeed, it gave airlines the range and seating capacity they needed, but the scale and four-engine layout also made it costly ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Qantas Airways Ltd's last Boeing 747 jet drew a kangaroo tail in the sky off the Australian coast as it began its final flight to retirement in the Mojave Desert on Wednesday, ...

TheBoeing 747-400 is perhaps one of the most iconic aircraft to ever grace the skies, with its forward upper deck giving it the distinctive hump it is known for. TheBoeing 777-300ER also an impressive ...

Hefty Bee, a Boeing 747 used by Rolls-Royce as a flying laboratory, was retired in July 2025. AeroTime takes a look at the ...

Qantas' historic "kangaroo route" is a prime example of aviation innovation over the past century. It dates back to 1934 when tiny biplanes began hopping 12 days between Australia and the UK. Project ...

T he Boeing 747 is one of the most recognizable aircraft ever, with a second deck at the front of its fuselage and four ...

Water spilled from a galley shut down all electricity supplies except the emergency battery backup on a Qantas Boeing 747-400 on Jan. 7, luckily when the aircraft was just 15 minutes from landing at ...

Snakes on planes aren’t just a horror found in Hollywood movies. A tiny exotic snake grounded a Qantas Boeing 747 airliner on Sunday. Staff found the 20-centimeter (8-inch) Mandarin Rat Snake in the ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A Qantas flight bound for Buenos Aires returned to Sydney on Monday due to technical problems, the second safety incident for the airline since one of its Airbus A380 superjumbos ...