A Boeing 747-400 has ... Stratolaunch's 747 gets a new name for the first time in 22 years Starting its long life as a passenger jet with Virgin Atlantic Airways in 2001, the 747 was named ...

Boeing and Virgin Atlantic yesterday announced a deal for ... is scheduled for next year using one of Virgin's Boeing 747-400s and also includes engine supplier General Electric.

Virgin Atlantic Becomes World's First Airline to Fly a Plane on Biofuel - Virgin Atlantic 747 flies from London Heathrow using biofuel - Flight partners are Boeing, GE Aviation and Imperium Renewables ...

In 2020 BA and Virgin Atlantic ... the 747, a plane much loved by passengers with its instantly recognisable hump and double decker design. Nicknamed The Queen Of The Skies, Boeing’s beast ...

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Social psychologists and police officers tend to agree that if a window in a building is broken ... In the March, 1969, Atlantic, one of us (Wilson) wrote a brief account of how the police role ...

Boeing in July said it is to end production of the 747 in 2022, while the world’s airlines, including British Airways and Virgin Atlantic, have retired their jumbos.

The launch will involve a repurposed Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 aircraft, named Cosmic Girl, flying 35,000 feet into the sky. It will release Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket stored under the wing.

Virgin Atlantic said its empty Boeing 787-9 was being towed from the stand at Terminal 3 when it happened. The airline added that the plane had just landed and was being transported to a different ...

Selling Jeppesen, which Boeing acquired in 2000 for $1.5 billion in cash, would help whittle down the plane-maker's towering debt. The election of Donald Trump will affect trade, technology and ...