For the last month and a half, Boeing has been investigating a serious buffet in the inboard flaps of the 747-8F, Flightglobal affiliate FlightBlogger reports. Turbulent air coming off of the outboard ...

Boeing has developed a solution to curtail the buffeting of the inboard flaps of the 747-8F at the maximum flap. The final fix, which resulted in a modification of the outboard main landing gear doors ...

An aerodynamic design problem with Boeing’s new 747-8 jumbo jet is causing shaking when the wing flaps are fully extended and the main landing gear doors are down. Boeing said it is addressing the ...

Question: Can the 747 be saved? It's sad to see the most beautiful and iconic passenger plane ever built being retired. What has accounted for its demise? Could they not attach new, more efficient ...

About an hour into the first flight of the 747 jumbo jet — 40 years ago today — the pilots moved the wing flaps and heard a bang. The big plane gave a momentary shudder that morning in 1969, but pilot ...

US FAA proposed an airworthiness directive to require operators of certain 747-400s to modify thrust reverser control system wiring to prevent inadvertent, automatic retractions of leading edge flaps.

On 30 August, ZK-NBS, the first Boeing B747-400 aircraft acquired by Air New Zealand, had a failure in the right hand, trailing edge, inboard fore-flap. The failure was not immediately noticed by the ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Investigators say a mechanical failure that blew a hole in the engine of a Qantas jet headed to Sydney from San Francisco also damaged the wing flaps. The engine failure early Tuesday ...

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration proposed that airlines modify wing-flap wiring on certain Boeing 747-400 models to avoid a risk that the planes won’t take off properly. The FAA is acting ...