Airliners

Boeing’s latest clean-sheet design, the 787, flew for the first time in 2009 and entered into commercial service in 2011 with Japan’s ANA. Since then, three variants of increasing length were introduced into service – 787-8, 787-9, and 787-10. While the shortest one of those is close in capacity to the 767, the longest one […]

While not as large as the Boeing 747 or 777, the Boeing 767 has seen a lot of popularity among airlines around the world. Regularly operating flights ranging from one-hour domestic hops within Japan through transcontinental flights in North America all the way to transatlantic flights, it’s a very versatile aircraft. Over the years, it

Boeing 777 is one of the most popular widebody aircraft. Between its introduction into service in 1995 and today, it has been offered in multiple different variants with more to come. Each of the variants offers different capabilities suited for different missions. This article takes a detailed look at the various specs of the 777.

The Boeing 787 and Airbus A380 widebodies are very different aircraft physically, primarily due to the upper passenger deck on the A380, making the A380 a much bigger and heavier aircraft than the 787. It’s also worth noting right off the bat that while the A380 is out of production now, the 787 remains in

With significant differences in their capabilities, the widebody 747 and narrowbody 757 were developed to serve different types of markets. They embarked on their first commercial flights in 1969 and 1983 respectively. The 757’s production run ended in 2005, and whilst many 757s have now been retired, significant numbers are still operated by airlines such

Boeing 787 and 747 widebodies are very different aircraft physically, primarily due to the upper passenger deck on the 747, making the 747 a much bigger and heavier aircraft than the 787. The other key difference is that the 787 remains in full production, whereas, the 747’s long production run recently came to an end

With the recent end of 747 production, I thought it would be interesting to take a look and compare the last two 747 series – the 747-400 and the 747-8 to see where they differ and where the similarities lay. In launching the 747-8 to extend the commercial life of the 747, Boeing had to

When Boeing embarked on the 747 program way back in the 1960s it probably never imagined how iconic and admired the 747 would become in the world of civil aviation. The 747 was Boeing’s first wide-body commercial airliner and was conceived as air travel started to surge and airfares started to decrease, creating the opportunity

Airbus, along with Boeing, is one of the two major manufacturers of large commercial aircraft on the global stage today. With revenues of more than $60 billion USD and innovative plans for future developments in airframe technologies, Airbus has extensive resources and a wide base of suppliers around the world. Among its most critical suppliers