FedEx retired 12 aircraft in its fiscal fourth quarter as the company sought to align network capacity with anticipated ...

The rise of FedEx Corp. from a startup express carrier with a few aircraft to the largest air cargo airline in the world and ...

The question of whether the Boeing 747 is bigger than the Airbus A380 is one of the most common queries among aviation enthusiasts and travelers alike. With both aircraft being two of the largest ...

FedEx has switched from downsizing to incrementally growing its air cargo fleet by ordering large 777 freighters and postponing plans to retire older MD-11 jets. The post FedEx orders Boeing 777 ...

FedEx Corp. has exercised options to purchase eight additional Boeing 777 freighters from Boeing and pushed back retirement of the tri-engine MD-11 fleet in response to rising demand for international ...

A Fedex cargo plane made an emergency landing in Newark Airport in New Jersey Saturday morning after a bird strike caused one of its engines to catch fire, an airport official told Fox News Digital.

DALLAS — Aviation is in a progress evolution process to be safer and also to be sustainable, which means that new planes will join the market; usually, these planes will consume less fuel, make less ...

Since the MD-11 could fit more cargo than other aircrafts of the time, it had a size to match that claim to fame. The plane's length was 200 feet, 10 inches, with a height of 57 feet, 9 inches.

N607FE, FedEx McDonnell Douglas MD-11 @KSLC. Photo: Michael Rodeback/Airways The first six trijets from the initial batch—which UPS accepted in 2001—will be retired this year, and there are currently ...

McDonnell Douglas made 53 of these planes for the sole purpose of carrying cargo in the form of the MD-11F, and companies like FedEx and UPS loved them because they could load and unload big items ...

And so instead of all new airplanes, it was like derivative after derivative. So, for the wide body line, the MD 11 was the last throw of the dice. The MD-12, as we know, never made it to launch.

Master Sgt. Anthony Williams marshals a B-52H Stratofortress on the flight line at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., during an Agile Combat Employment exercise Aug. 16, 2022. (Senior Airman Chase ...