The choice of the Boeing 747 as the primary aircraft to ferry the Space Shuttle orbiter was a decision rooted in the jumbo jet’s size, strength, and availability during the 1970s. This unique ...

A Boeing 747 that functions as GE Aerospace’s Flying Test Bed sat on the runway towering over NASA Langley Research Center’s G-III aircraft at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton on Monday, Nov.

NASA's Gulfstream G-III will use lidar technology to scan contrails of GE's Boeing 747 GE Aerospace's Boeing 747 Flying Test Bed will be used for contrail studies.

This cover shows NASA's Boeing 747 carrying the shuttle Enterprise as it touches down at Le Bourget Airport to terminate its Paris Air Show flight demonstration. The combination was flown by NASA ...

More than 70 years have passed since the first successful mass-produced passenger jet—the Boeing 707—revolutionized air travel. While the aviation industry has undergone dramatic transformations over ...