Originally Posted by
JayRalstonSmith
This is fairly reductive. The wing is in fact different. There's a new high lift system with the switch from a double-slotted to single-slotted inboard flap (which I hope they do frankly on all the 32X going forward). There are intermediate flap positions controlled by the FMS, which help with the second stage climb. They made fluid and computational dynamics enhancements to the strengthen the fuselage and the new CWB.
Don't bid it. I'll do the 22 hours in Rome, Munich, Vienna, etc for you.
Remember when I talked about green dot speed? That is when the wing is clean. That wing is the same. I would love to fly international, but that has nothing to do with the XLR not being overstretched.