American DC-7B N381AA pulls into the gate, with a Royal Coachman logo behind the passenger door. This airplane survives today, now residing at Municipal Airport in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, where it will hopefully open as the DC-7 Grille restaurant.
Boeing's new Phantom Ray unmanned aircraft took to the air for the first time on Monday, with some help from one of NASA's 747 Space Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.
Boeing on Thursday forecast that air carriers in the U.S. and Canada will take delivery of about 7,200 new airplanes over the next 20 years at an investment of $700 billion.