The Boeing 707 represents a turning point in the history of aviation, a moment when air travel began to take on the speed, scale, and accessibility that define it today. Its arrival marked a shift not ...

The 727 wins ‘cool points’ for its tri-jet configuration, three engines handsomely placed below a T-tail. The T-tail, with ...

The DC-8 was Douglas's first jet-powered airliner. It was built in part as a response to the Boeing 707, and while it was ...

This was the Boeing 747SP, a rare moment in airliner history when a manufacturer decided that the route to more range was ...

A new generation of widebody jets like the Boeing 787 and 777, as well as the Airbus A330 and A350, is fast replacing aging ...

It was supposed to be the jet that made Concorde look slow - a supersonic airliner capable of nearly Mach 3, carrying ...

The triangle-shaped "blended-wing body" plane ditches the traditional tube-and-wing design for one giant, sweeping wing with ...