As for the 747-8's cargo capacity, the aircraft can reportedly carry a payload of up to 308,000 pounds, or about 154 tons. As ...

But while the 747 Aircraft Carrier was on track to accomplish the idea, a series of problems surfaced that ultimately caused the plans to fail. And the major problem lay with the micro fighters.

Since its first flight in 1969, the giant yet graceful 747 has served as a cargo plane, a commercial aircraft capable of carrying nearly 500 passengers, a transport for NASA’s space shuttles ...

NASA's prototype orbiter Enterprise, atop the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, departed Dryden (today, Armstrong) Flight Research Center in California on May 16, 1983, on the first leg of its ...

Question: Why have 747 aircraft disappeared from passenger service but are still very popular as freighters? – VS. Answer: The 747 can carry a large amount of freight, plus it has great range.

In Mar-2018 the Boeing 747 finally lost its crown as the world's most successful widebody aircraft by the number of deliveries, when it was overtaken by Boeing's 777.. The 747 made aviation history ...

By the end of 2022, the last three 747 aircraft to ever be produced will roll out of Boeing's factory in Everett, Washington. The first Boeing 747-8F rolls off the assembly line.

Boeing once studied turning a 747 widebody airliner into a flying aircraft carrier.; The plane would have carried up to 10 “microfighters” into combat. The concept was never built out, but a ...

Qantas's final Boeing 747 departed from Australia for the last time on Wednesday en route to retirement, marking the end of a nearly 50-year chapter with the aircraft that started in 1971.

In mid-September 2024, an image allegedly depicting the economy class cabin of a PanAm Boeing 747 aircraft in the 1960s was shared on Facebook.The photo showed a wide airplane cabin with two ...

As for the 747-8's cargo capacity, the aircraft can reportedly carry a payload of up to 308,000 pounds, or about 154 tons. As Boeing playfully points out, that's about 10,767 gold bars.