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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 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 .
The New Midsize Airplane (NMA), or New Midsize Aircraft, [1] (culturally referred to as the Boeing 797) [2] is a concept airliner proposed by Boeing to fill the middle of the market segment. In 2015, Boeing determined the market was large enough to launch a new design.
Boeing's highly-anticipated 777X will compete with rival Airbus' A350, featuring things like larger windows and more passenger seating. See inside Boeing's first-ever 777X aircraft testing tech ...
Thanks to its longer wings, more powerful engines, and revolutionary folding wingtips, the 777-9 variant China Airlines bought is designed to fly up to 426 people across nearly 8,400 miles.
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 airplane to fit inside the same airport gates as the 777-200LR/777-300ER.
The Boeing 737 MAX uses a new type of wingtip device. [36] Resembling a three-way hybrid of a winglet, wingtip fence, and raked wingtip, Boeing claims that this new design should deliver an additional 1.5% improvement in fuel economy over the 10-12% improvement already expected from the 737 MAX.
Boeing Co.'s specially modified jumbo jet for carrying oversize structures of the 787 Dreamliner to assembly plants in Washington and South Carolina is called the Dreamlifter. The past 18 months ...