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The Boeing 367-80 was one of the first jetliners in the world, as well as the first successful jetliner. The 367-80 was built as a prototype for the 707. The 367-80 was later evolved into the following on this list below, except for the EC-135/RC-135 variants that will be included on two other posts...

This post is a continued version of the previous 747 post and will have all of the 747 civilian variants from the -100 to the -800 that were planned or were built by The Boeing Company. Boeing planned with the Boeing 747 to only produce about 500 before the SSTs (Supersonic Transport aircraft) ruled...

34 years ago, today, December 24th 1988, the largest airplane in the world first flew in the Soviet Union. The An-225 was the largest airplane in the world and was powered by six Ivchenko Progress Lotarev D-18T engines which was the basically the Warsaw Pact version of the Rolls-Royce Trent 500, the...

78 years ago, on December 17th 1944, the German Army succeeded in a breaking through Allied lines in an attempt to reach the Belgium port of Antwerp, which ultimately failed. If they had reached there, their plan was to invade Britain with the hope that both the U.S. and Great Britain would leave th...

126 years ago today, December 14th, 1896, James Doolittle was born. Doolittle was famous for hundreds of aviation-related feats such as setting several world records for aircraft and entering (and winning) every air race worth entering in the 1920s and '30s. He also lead the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo,...

52 years ago on December 13th, 1950, the Battle of Chosin Reservoir ended. The battle was fought from November 26th to December 13th, 1950 and primarily was fought between the United Nations (UN) X Corps and the Chinese 9th Army. The UN X Corps was commanded by Major General Edward M. Almond, and...

81 years ago today on December 7th, 1941, Japanese Navy aircraft attacked Pearl Harbor in Oahu, Hawaii, causing the United States to enter into World War II. The next day after the attack, December 8th, President Roosevelt gave his famous December 7th, 1941 Day of Infamy speech, which I have include...

53 years ago today, December 2nd, 1969, the Boeing 747 was FAA certified. For about 50 years the Boeing 747 has been known by many names, such as: "The Queen of the Skies" and "Jumbo Jet". The Boeing 747 first rolled out of the Boeing Everett plant in February 1969, which was a remarkable feat, due ...

The NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) Boeing 747-100s (N905NA and N911NA) were the two aircraft dedicated to transport the Space Shuttle. The 747 was the winner of the SCA competition by beating both the Conroy Virtus (see top left picture) and the twin fuselage C-5 (see top right picture). Of the...

The NASA/DLR (National Aeronautics and Space Administration/German Aerospace Center) Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) Boeing 747SP was a Pan Am Boeing 747SP delivered on May 20th 1977 (N536PA). It was christened Clipper Lindbergh until it was sold to United Airlines on Februa...