From kls Wed Sep 9 04:12:13 1998 Path: bounce-back Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners,misc.transport.air-industry Date: 09 Sep 98 04:12:13 From: ASDL User Subject: Re: Airbus P305 References: Message-ID: Approved: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Sender: kls@ohare.Chicago.COM Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA, USA Larry Sakurai wrote: > Don't be surprised if improvements come out of Boeing's 767-400 program > that'll apply to the smaller models. The Boeing-MDC engineers (they teamed > up before the merger was announced) have added new raked wingtips for > the -400. I believe that as a result, the -400 will actually have a shorter > wingspan than the -300, and it'll be able to use gates used by DC-10s, > MD-11s, and L-1011s. The 767-400 will not have a wing span shorted than the -300ER, the raked wing tips, allowed Boeing to shorten the wing span over what would have existed had they used wing tip extensions and winglets as previously planned.