From hrose-saa@ckdhr.com Sun Mar 18 12:06:17 1901 Path: bounce-back Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners Date: 18 Mar 2001 12:06:17 From: megazone@sidehack.sat.gweep.net (MegaZone) Subject: Re: Folding wings 777? References: Message-ID: Approved: hrose-saa@ckdhr.com@ditka.Chicago.COM Sender: hrose-saa@ckdhr.com@ditka.Chicago.COM X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVanoLdWSDtuZ/kcEoIKYEe1tpt2ng380YgT4TIk4kiXnuNOwQk4Jw5U Organization: WPI Discordian Society, Undocumented Cabal of the Accursed Saint Shiranto Joe X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test74 (May 26, 2000) emtgx@aol.com (J. G. Pastorkyna) shaped the electrons to say: >Has any carrier taken advantage of Boeing's offer to manufacture the 777 with >wings that can be shortened by folding up before reaching the gate? It was Nope. And Boeing has dropped that option. It was included basically because American Airlines said they wouldn't buy any 777s if they couldn't fit them into gates they had. And that required the folding wing... Then American didn't order the folding wing 777 anyway. No one else expressed interest, and as they grew the line they would have had to keep investing engineering in the option, so they just dropped it. -MZ, CISSP #3762, RHCE #806199299900541 -- Gweep, Discordian, Author, Engineer, me.. "A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men" 781-788-0130 Hail Discordia!