Boeing's 777X is just one plane in a long history of passenger planes from the contractor. It's so wide that its wingtips ...

When the new widebody 777x enters service ... 777-9—the wings will measure 235 feet from tip to folding tip. That’s wider than the wings on existing Boeing 777s or the 787, and about double ...

When airborne, the forthcoming Boeing 777x aircraft ... the plane’s wings—or asking airports to make bigger gates—Boeing engineers gave them hinges, so the tips could fold up and down.

The idea to create folding wing tips stemmed from airport gate space limitations. Like pilot training, Boeing didn't want the new 777X to require costly airport infrastructure changes. The 777X ...

The 777X, by contrast, can fly to the many airports around the world served by the Boeing 777, 787 series or the A330. That's because, with the folding wing tips, Boeing has ensured that the new ...

Boeing announced its next-generation 777X passenger jet at the Dubai Airshow in 2013. The plane is a stretched version of Boeing's successful 777-200/300, but with reduced emissions and operating ...

US regulators have detailed a series of protective safety measures proposed for the Boeing 777X's folding wing-tips, having drawn comparisons with the risks posed by unreleased gust-locks. The US ...

St. Louis will build the pieces of the 777X wing’s fixed leading edge, the panels for that leading edge, the movable trailing edge and the jet’s innovative folding wingtip. It will also build ...

Folding wing mechanism in combination with bigger ... For the Boeing 777-9, however, it was needed to add the folding tips to keep the 777X in the same gate category allowing for a smooth ...

The idea to create folding wing tips stemmed from airport gate space limitations. Like pilot training, Boeing didn't want the new 777X to require costly airport infrastructure changes. The 777X has a ...