boeing 747
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10 Reasons People Are Now Scared to Fly on Boeing Planes
The world got an uncomfortable reminder about the need to scrutinize air travel last January when a door plug blew off an Alaska Airlines flight 16,000 feet over Portland, OR. The culprit was a Boeing 737, and in the days that followed, it was soon clear that catastrophic failure wasn’t a freak accident but the…
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You Can Now Sleep in a Retired Semi Truck Trailer Tiny House
A Polish hotel chain has a neat solution to old, rusty semi truck trailers littering the country. Instead of sleeping in a regular hotel, Good Spot wants you to sleep in an old semi truck trailer that it turned into a tiny house.
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NASA Is Retiring One of the Last Stubby Boeing 747sps in the Sky
After eight years of operation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is soon to retire a unique piece of equipment and aviation history. NASA’s Boeing 747SP-based Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) flying telescope will be retired this year.
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US Doomsday Plane Spotted Flying Over Nebraska Airspace
On March 1, shortly after Vladimir Putin activated his nuclear forces, the Nightwatch took flight from an Air Force base in Nebraska. The plane is a modified Boeing 747 that is sometimes popularly known as The Doomsday Plane.