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AFAIK, this is the first passenger plane with this feature. Other planes with folding wings have been military, and they may have skipped the redundant locks a
by chiph 8y ago
AFAIK, this is the first passenger plane with this feature.
Other planes with folding wings have been military, and they may have skipped the redundant locks and warning systems in favor of weight reduction.
- alricb 8y agoThere were civilian planes with folding wings, like the Fairchild FC-2 or the Avro Avian. The idea was to make it easier to move them by road or to store them, for instance in a small hangar in Northern Canada for the Fairchild, which was used as a bush plane.