Wing leader With a large composite wing, the 777X will make the next big leap in performance and efficiency By Eric Fetters-Walp As he stood next to a model of the new 777X twinjet, Terry Beezhold, vice president and chief project engineer for the program, ran his hand over the wing and studied it for a moment. “No one can do what we do,” he remarked to a fellow engineer. “This is truly an amazing wing.” It’s hard to overstate how big the wing, complete with folding wingtips, will be when it’s built in real size. The 777X will have the largest wing ever built by Boeing. To gain even more efficiency and range over the current 777, the new wing, made of strong but lightweight composite, will span 233 feet 5 inches (71.1 meters). That’s Frontiers March 2014 19
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