Believe it or not, passengers in the 1970s had the luxury of a fully functioning dancefloor, complete with mirrored wall when they flew on Boeing 747 flights between Canada and Europe. As ...

For a brief moment in the jet age, airlines transformed flying into the ultimate party-where mile-high discos, piano bars, ...

This photo of a Continental Airlines DC-3 “Sky Freighter” shows not only the ... PAUL ZOGG COLLECTION (ZOGGAVIA.COM) Boeing 747 freighters joined the fleet in 1974. Dubbed Seaboard World ...

In the early 1970s, Air Canada installed a dance floor on the upper deck of its Boeing 747 ... American Airlines added a piano bar to the back of their 747s. Continental Airlines introduced ...

One A320 is operating in a vintage ‘Friend Ship’ livery dating back to the 1960s and early 1970s, while another A320 wears a Continental ... airlines using retrojet liveries, Lufthansa has two Airbus ...

In the sleekly aerondynamic world of aviation, it looks a bit odd, but the Boeing 747 has a hump atop it. The reason goes ...

We tracked where some of Qantas’s most beloved but oldest planes have ended up, from the Mojave desert to other big airlines ... passenger jumbo jet, the Boeing 747. Over 49 years, from 1971 ...

The plane, measuring 108m in length, would outsize a Boeing 747 by carrying twelve times its load and being 38m longer. The impressive aircraft has a unique mission - transporting enormous wind ...

When the first Boeing 747 rolled from the hangar in Everett ... British Airways, Lufthansa and Korean Air have dozens apiece, and many more airlines operate 747s as freighters.

The Boeing 747 program may have been officially ended by the planemaker, but the Queen of the Skies is still alive and well in the industry. Despite a dwindling number of commercial passenger ...