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The never-before-seen technology has several advantages, but the idea stemmed from airport-gate space limitations and the 777X's huge wingspan.
The Boeing 777 (classic) twinjet wide-body airliner was offered with folding wingtips for confined airports, though this was never ordered. [9] The new Boeing 777X features a shorter and simpler folding wingtip than was planned for the earlier Boeing 777, which will provide an extra 7 metres (23 ft) of total wingspan in flight, while allowing ...
The Boeing 777X is the latest series of the long-range, wide-body, twin-engine jetliners in the Boeing 777 family from Boeing Commercial Airplanes.The changes for 777X include General Electric GE9X engines, composite wings with folding wingtips, greater cabin width and seating capacity, and technologies from the Boeing 787.
Raked wingtips are installed on the Boeing 767-400ER (first flight on October 9, 1999), all generations of Boeing 777 (June 12, 1994) including the upcoming 777X, the 737-derived Boeing P-8 Poseidon (25 April 2009), all variants of the Boeing 787 (December 15, 2009) (the cancelled Boeing 787-3 would have had a 170 ft (51.7 m) wingspan to fit in ...
Boeing's highly-anticipated 777X will compete with rival Airbus' A350, featuring things like larger windows and more passenger seating.
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Emirates' president criticized Boeing over further delays to the 777X jet delivery. Tim Clark said delays had been costly, and the airline would have "a serious conversation" with Boeing.
The upward tilt of the wings and tailplane of an aircraft, as seen on this Boeing 737, is called dihedral angle. Schematic of dihedral and anhedral angle of an aircraft wing Measuring the dihedral angle. Dihedral angle is the upward angle from horizontal of the wings or tailplane of a fixed-wing aircraft.