According to Paramount Business Jets, the cost of chartering a Boeing 747-400 would start at over $30,000 per hour, although ...

The GEnx engines would propel the 747-8 model to a cruising speed of Mach 0.86 (573 knots / 660 miles per hour) at a range of 7,730 nautical miles (8,900 statute miles / 14,320 km), effectively ...

General Electric is investigating a second failure of its GEnx jet engine after a Boeing 747-8 freighter flown by AirBridgeCargo Airlines lost thrust during takeoff in Shanghai three days ago.The ...

General Electric launched its flight test campaign for the Boeing 747-8 GEnx-2B engine in the skies over Victorville, California. The five-hour maiden flight, which took place on 23 March, is ...

TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Boeing Co., the Chicago aerospace giant, said late on Monday that the model 747-8 Freighter took off from Everett, Wash., and successfully made its first flight. The ...

“Since the GE90 and the GEnx model turbofan engines share the same EEC ... The FAA estimates its proposal would apply to 308 engines on US-registered 787s and 747-8s. Story updated on 16 April ...

NASA's prototype orbiter Enterprise, atop the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, departed Dryden (today, Armstrong) Flight Research Center in California on May 16, 1983, on the first leg of its ...

Unlike the A380, which only carries passengers -- albeit a lot of them -- the 747-8 continues the model's long history as a successful cargo carrier. ... Noise reduction design on the GEnx engines.

The 747-8 Freighter, ... (The passenger version of the plane is set to arrive about a year after the cargo model.) ... similar to the GEnx engines that will power the 787 Dreamliner.

Boeing has been working on the 747-8 Intercontinental for years, and last month, it formally unveiled the new jumbo jet at a huge ceremony here. The cargo version of the plane, the 747-8 Freighter ...

Boeing this week announced the team of suppliers that will provide propulsion systems for the 747-8 airplane family, which was launched last November. The 747-8 family includes the 747-8 ...

Lufthansa "will look seriously at the 747-8," Chairman and CEO Wolfgang Mayrhuber told ... citing in particular the decision by Boeing to offer the GEnx as the engine for the new model. ...