When the first Boeing ... in the 747’s favor. One by one, the world’s major carriers have been sending them to the boneyard, and for the first time in almost 50 years, no U.S. carrier flies ...

Discovery took off atop NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, a modified Boeing 747, leaving the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:58 a.m. ET, just after dawn, for Washington. The ferry flight was ...

Built from salvaged B-52 bombers, the Conroy Virtus was proposed as a massive shuttle carrier and potential air-launch ...

Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and ...

Despite its prominent position at the museum, the 747 was actually a minor player in Delta's century-long history. The carrier took delivery of its first Boeing 747-100 in 1970 but soon realized ...