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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am
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Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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News CLICKYBetter latte than never.
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Zippy
Spends far too much time on here
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Location: Here Abouts
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 It just shouldn't fly!! I know it's all lightweight and fuel efficient but just LOOK how narrow those wings are!?!? It shouldn't be able to get off the ground  _________________The Official "Saucy Minx"  This above all: To Thine Own Self Be True "Red sky at night, Shepherds Delight"..Which is a bit like Shepherds Pie, but with whipped topping instead of mashed potato.
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| Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:31 pm |
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rustybucket
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:10 pm
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It'll be fine - the wing root chord (length from leading edge to trailing edge) is 38.94ft or 11.9m. That's 50% deeper than your average Taylor-Woodrow semi-detached house. Or to put it another way, you could park 4.8 Routemaster buses side by side. From here  _________________Jim
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
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Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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You sound like my mum when she's watching a jumbo jet taking off. 
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Fogmeister
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Yeah but that doesn't stop it looking like a normal jet that swapped its wings for small sticks. 
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EddArmitage
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I'd like to see it take off with 96 of them attached. Just to prove the point. Will someone let me turn off the laws of physics and common sense for half an hour?
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| Wed Dec 16, 2009 10:36 am |
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
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Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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Don't forget the false impressions of scale. The wing is a similar size to a 767's, but they look smaller as the turbofan on the 787 have a much larger diameter (2.85m v 2.19m), giving a false prospective.
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