Used 777-300ER
09-06-2024 | 01:33 PM
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09-07-2024 | 12:51 AM
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While the company has said repeatedly the 9X is too big for us... get this, I've read elsewhere that it also has less cargo capacity than a 300ER. Sure it has more space for pallets, but apparently the difference between Max ZFW and MTOW is narrower. Despite BA's recent pratfalls, I find it genuinely hard to believe that Boeing would actually handicap one of the 777's biggest selling points. So, I'm hoping someone reading this can confidently deny it. But, if this is true, I can't see us buying any 9Xs unless BA is able to increase the MTOW significantly. Maybe a 777-9.1 someday?
09-07-2024 | 05:06 AM
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09-07-2024 | 10:28 AM
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09-07-2024 | 04:17 PM
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Believe it when you see it. We're so jacked out of our mind here on koolaid at UAL that anything seems believable.
I'd be stoked if we got half our expected orders. Set the bar low gents, be surprised if anything better happens.
09-08-2024 | 10:25 PM
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Superhornet has folding wings, lives and operates in a salt air environment, and sees 7.5 G’s on a regular basis. Never had one fail on me, never even heard of one failing.
Not a Boeing fan boy, but it’s not exactly a complicated system and they’ve been building them for decades.
Not a Boeing fan boy, but it’s not exactly a complicated system and they’ve been building them for decades.
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