This video tracks Pan Am’s obsession with the next frontier, supersonic transport, through political infighting, a Concorde option play, and the ultimately uneconomical reality of SSTs. It then pivots ...

David Ryder/Bloomberg via Getty Images Boeing on Tuesday is delivering the last 747 jet ever made, handing over a freighter version of its iconic aircraft to Atlas Air. Thousands of current and former ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. December 21, 1988 – Pan Am Flight 103 explodes 31,000 feet over Lockerbie, Scotland, 38 minutes after takeoff from London. Two hundred ...

The type remains in service with a handful of cargo and passenger airlines.

The Jumbo Jet era was four decades old on 22 January 2009, as 40 years ago on that day Pan Am put its first Boeing 747-100 into service between New York and London. The anniversary, which is being ...