The US Air Force announced plans Tuesday to purchase two Boeing 747-8 aircraft to support its future presidential airlift program, with an Air Force official confirming it would acquire the planes ...

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Today, we are going to compare two aircraft that are difficult to compare. But both represent peak engineering ideas for Boeing and Airbus, respectively. We are talking about the Boeing 747-8I and ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force said on Tuesday it was acquiring two Boeing 747-8 jumbo jets for $400 million to establish a training and sustainment program for its future ...

(RTTNews) - Deutsche Lufthansa AG (DLAKY.PK) has secured an order to supply two Boeing 747-8i aircraft to the U.S. Air Force as part of its presidential airlift program, according to several media ...

Boeing structural supplier Vought Aircraft Industries has begun sub-assembly production on the airframer's first 747-8I. The Dallas-based supplier has begun manufacturing floor beams and frames for ...

Airbus is questioning why its rival Boeing should be allowed to "grandfather" the certification of the new 747-8 on the back of the original version of the aircraft, which entered service in 1970. And ...

Boeing has handed over the first 747-8 Intercontinental VIP airplane to what it described as an undisclosed customer. However the airplane, which was delivered with a minimal interior carries the ...

The articles “Long Ranger” and “Freezing Point” (AW&ST Nov. 12, p. 64), about Boeing’s strategies regarding fuel capacity and range on the 777 and 747-8I, appear to have been fortuitously juxtaposed.