Links on Head for Points may support the site by paying a commission. See here for all partner links. If you’ve never flown on a Boeing 747, the original jumbo jet, you may feel like you have missed ...

The plane was built in 2012 with an engine from CFM International. Boeing declined comment, and CFM did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The day after an older Boeing 737 engine caught fire at Denver International Airport, there are still few answers about what led to the sparks. The fire started after American Airlines Flight 1006 ...

Boeing and GE declined to comment. The engine fire is the latest in a series of high-profile aviation incidents that have raised questions about US aviation safety, including the January 29 mid ...

A passenger jet with 178 people on board has caught fire after developing an engine fault and being forced to divert to Denver. The American Airlines flight 1006, on a Boeing 737-800, was ...

Rolls-Royce has restarted flight tests of its next-generation ALECSys combustion system, including cold-weather testing in Alaska, as it looks to ensure maturity of the technology.

Seconds after taking off from San Francisco, a United Airlines Boeing 747 shudders violently as one of its engines starts to fail. The intense vibrations terrify the passengers, and are so strong ...

Can the Airbus A380 'superjumbo' outlive the Boeing 747 'jumbo jet'? The answer depends somewhat on how that question is answered. The A380 is designed with an operational lifespan of around 25 years ...

A retired Boeing ... 747 is being turned into a unique dining venue. The plane is among a handful of double-deckers that have been repurposed into tourist attractions. People can sleep in a 747 ...

As former US News & World Report White House Correspondent Kenneth Walsh explains in his book Air Force One, the president’s modified 747 jumbo ... into the engines?” Boeing did not ...

Engine supplier Rolls-Royce has already shipped the Pearl 10X powerplants for the maiden sortie following completion last year of test flights aboard its Boeing 747-200 testbed. “We are very ...