Originally Posted by
BoilerUP
You might be surprised...remember, the CRJ is just a stretched Challenger.
Initial design with both markets in mind can allow engineering to address those issues.
Or...not.
Stretches work much better than shrinks. And I'm not sure that the CRJ is a good example of that process working well anyway.
Maybe they can kill two birds with 1.84 stones, but I have a hard time imagining much commonality between a wing optimized for FL490 0.9 and FL240 0.76.