The famous Boeing 747, perhaps the most famous commercial aircraft in all of history, serves another purpose that only the global elite can enjoy: a jumbo private jet. While the 747 was originally ...

Boeing has 167 orders totaling more than $3.3 billion from 28 airlines. Pan American plans to put the first jumbo jet into service across the Atlantic in December, with TWA following about two ...

We look back on the original Jumbo Jet’s colourful history ... asking Boeing to design a plane twice the size of the 707, the first jetliner. The Seattle manufacturer did not have a plant ...