During a luncheon of the famed Wings Club at the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field a year ago, heads turned when a mammoth, humpback- shaped plane slowly taxied past the windows. It was the Large Cargo ...
The second Boeing (NYSE: BA) 747-8 Freighter, RC521, landed in Palmdale, Caliornia today, marking the beginning of a planned transition of 747-8 Freighter testing to Southern California. The more than ...
Boeing is approaching a crucial phase in the 747-8 flight-test effort as it prepares to start trials of the -8I passenger variant and undertakes the dramatic maximum-brake-energy demonstration on the ...
Boeing says it remains on track for first flight of its 747-8 Freighter "early in 2010" as it outlines it plans for the flight-test programme to bring the new jumbo to market by the fourth quarter of ...
The Boeing Co. will move the flight test program for its delayed 747-8 jet to Moses Lake and later to Palmdale, Calif. The move was announced by Boeing 747 and flight test program leaders in an e-mail ...
A fifth Boeing 747-8 freighter test airplane took to the air in Everett Friday. Boeing said the plane performed well during a 3-and-1/2-hour initial flight, then returned to Paine Field, where it will ...
Boeing flew one of its new 747-8 test airplanes to Palmdale, Calif., Monday, following completion of the first phase of flight testing from Moses Lake. The freighter jet is the second of three flight ...
EVERETT, Wash. — It took its first flight here in western Washington more than 50 years ago. Now the last Boeing 747-8 freighter, now painted and ready to officially take flight, will be delivered to ...
A Boeing 747-400 freighter in final assembly at the Everett plant was significantly damaged Friday during a pressurization test. No one was injured in the mishap, which occurred shortly after 1 a.m. A ...
SEATTLE, March 20 (Reuters) - Boeing Co's 747-8 Intercontinental, the new passenger version of its legendary jumbo jet, completed its maiden flight without a hitch on Sunday, marking a key milestone ...