Flying a Boeing 747SP, the US legacy carrier flew around the world in the fastest time ever, raising thousands of dollars for ...

Evidently, someone at Boeing did. This is the story of the 747SP. But to understand why Boeing even considered down-sizing the world's largest airliner, we need to understand what the commercial ...

Before the Boeing 747 was discontinued in 2023, it built a number of variants for the aircraft to suit a variety of needs.

The destroyed aircraft (tail number 7O-YMN) originally entered service with Braniff ... The 747SP (SP stands for "Special Performance") is a modified version of Boeing's flagship 747 jumbo jet.

Donald Trump’s campaign has cited the immovability of arm rests between first class seats on the old Braniff Airways planes to refute an allegations of a 1979 sexual assault on a woman by the ...

While the rest of the industry was going to wide-bodied jets, Lawrence converted Braniff’s fleet to the narrower Boeing 727s. He put leather seats in first class and turned his cabin attendants ...

One was a model of a Boeing 747SP, and the other was an Airbus A340-500. Both had the distinctive colors of Sands Aviation: the dark-blue underside of the fuselage and trailing gold, dark-blue and ...

NASA’s Boeing 747SP flying telescope platform is called SOFIA, which stands for Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. [Courtesy: NASA] NASA’s one-of-a-kind, modified Boeing 747SP ...

The 747SP's track bogie centres is 11m. The airport is at around 5,000ft altitude, for which Boeing manuals recommend a minimum field length of 1,800m. However, the aircraft was light on fuel.