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Cool vid. Man, those wings have some serious dihedral (or however you spell it)! I only wish Boeing would have kept their classic cockpit style windows for this jet. Other than the cockpit windows, it sure is a sexy jet!
Sexy? That's like saying a new Greyhound bus is sexy. It reminds me of the iPad parody, showing an increasingly larger and larger iPad. "Look the new 707, 727,737,747,757,767,777,787 ...
I get it. They really have no new ideas, nothing dramatically different in teh pipeline, no blended wings, no lifting bodies, no monolithic airframes, just another digit, and better fuel economy.
I am sure it is a technical breakthough in many ways, but it is a scaled up design from 50 years ago.
Imagine if the 'new F-15' was a larger, and more flexible P-51.
TRG