While the sleek lines of modern twin-engine jets dominate today’s taxiways, the Boeing 747 Freighter remains an unmistakable titan of the skies, largely due to its massive, upward-swinging nose door.

The 747's iconic front-loading cargo door will prove hard to replace, but the economics may support replacement.

Through the heat haze, airplane tails rose from the desert. As I steered off the interstate toward Pinal Airpark, in Marana, Arizona, I got my first view of a corpse in full: a stark-white Boeing 747, ...

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 ...