For decades, the Boeing 747 was the Queen of the Skies. But the glamorous double-decker jumbo jet that revolutionized air ...

One version of the plane that never made it off the drawing boards was the 747 Trijet. In the 1960s and 1970s, the company toyed with building a three-engine commercial plane. This would have seen ...

“Once you get up around 185[mph], 200, the roar is like you’re inside a 747 jet engine,” Krall noted. “You feel it in your ...

The airline patched a fifth engine onto the wing of the Boeing 747-400 jumbo jet. The engine was destined for another aircraft that became stranded after experiencing mechanical trouble.