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well part of your statement applies to why jumbos don't work, you have to expand airports to support them, in particular you cannot have as many gates servicing
by Shivetya 8y ago
well part of your statement applies to why jumbos don't work, you have to expand airports to support them, in particular you cannot have as many gates servicing them compared to other planes within the same space.
Plus besides the exterior space needed for the gate the interior space for handling so many people loading and offloading is the equivalent to two or more planes.
Even Boeing recently went to folding wing tips to fit their newest super efficient designs into existing gate setups.
- coredog64 8y agoThe 777 design included the ability to support folding wingtips as an option. They put it in at a customer’s request (American IIRC) and then never used it.
- huffmsa 8y agoPretty sure they haven't released the folding wings yet. First flight is 2019Q2. First delivery 2020. 326 on order.
- sbradford26 8y agoSo the 777x is the one you are talking about and it will come standard with folding wingtips, but the original 777 had an option for folding wingtips and no one ordered them. I am not sure if Boeing had it developed and never used it, or no one ordered it so they never developed it.
- xxpor 8y agoNotably, the folding tips on the 777x get the wingspan down to the original 777 span. Theyre in the middle of building what I think was the first 777x. We saw it in the Everett factory last Friday.
- Reason077 8y agoThe new 777X models all have folding wingtips. It's part of the standard design, not an option.