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Re: Boeing Deception: 777X Wing Actually Elongated 787 Wing

Postby Rabbi O'Genius » Wed Sep 12, 2018 3:21 pm

OK, I buy the argument that increasing the aspect ratio can decrease the induced drag.
But what about the tip vortices? If a wing is simply stretched but has the same form and lifting profile at the tip, it’s going to generate much the same vortices at the tip

The claim that winglet orientation is immaterial and that a horizontal winglet prevents air bleeding from bottom to top as effectively as a vertical one needs a bit of justification. From the (admittedly simplistic) “damming air from getting round the corner” point of view, it would seem so much easier for the flow to make the single +180 deg rotation from bottom to top around the tip (and initiate a vortex) instead of the +90, +180, -90 path needed to get round a vertical winglet (or the -90, +180, +180, -90 for a wingtip fence).

Furthermore, if you do have a vertical winglet, why would you give it a “lifting” profile?

If you do, the winglet itself will generate its own tip vortices, and the pressure differential created would assist the main vortex generation by helping move the air round the wingtip from bottom to top. Surely a winglet ought to have a neutral profile and AOA, so that it would generate no pressure differential, less drag, and no tip vortices of its own, and would constitute a buffer zone of “dead air” hindering the flow of air from bottom to top of the main wing.
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Re: Boeing Deception: 777X Wing Actually Elongated 787 Wing

Postby 3WE » Wed Sep 12, 2018 3:54 pm

OK, I buy the argument that increasing the aspect ratio can decrease the induced drag.
But what about the tip vortices? If a wing is simply stretched but has the same form and lifting profile at the tip, it’s going to generate much the same vortices at the tip.
I think I am beginning to understand some stuff- it's all about trade offs.

Let's pretend our new tall 737 winglets are very malleable.

If we bend them down, maybe we do lose the vortex killing...but we get MORE lift...a deal that if you are going to put the metal and weight and drag out there, you get a BETTER deal making more lift than you do killing vortexes.

To the snip of your comment- maybe the vortex is the same as it was before...but RELATIVELY it's more wing VERSUS the vortex- thus a net gain (even though you still have the same vortex).

Or this restatement...you have a 90-degree vortex killer, but there's still a big vortex that works around it....so bend it flat and you are still sort of killing the same vortex, but getting some lift while you are at it???

Is that the whole deal with gliders?....really really really long wing with a vortex on the end- which only 'wastes' the outer 3 feet of the wing...vs. a short stubby wing where when you 'waste' the outer 3 feet in a vortex, it's more of the wing being wasted on a percentage basis???

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Re: Boeing Deception: 777X Wing Actually Elongated 787 Wing

Postby Gabriel » Wed Sep 12, 2018 5:26 pm

OK, I buy the argument that increasing the aspect ratio can decrease the induced drag.
But what about the tip vortices? If a wing is simply stretched but has the same form and lifting profile at the tip, it’s going to generate much the same vortices at the tip

The claim that winglet orientation is immaterial and that a horizontal winglet prevents air bleeding from bottom to top as effectively as a vertical one needs a bit of justification. From the (admittedly simplistic) “damming air from getting round the corner” point of view, it would seem so much easier for the flow to make the single +180 deg rotation from bottom to top around the tip (and initiate a vortex) instead of the +90, +180, -90 path needed to get round a vertical winglet (or the -90, +180, +180, -90 for a wingtip fence).

Furthermore, if you do have a vertical winglet, why would you give it a “lifting” profile?

If you do, the winglet itself will generate its own tip vortices, and the pressure differential created would assist the main vortex generation by helping move the air round the wingtip from bottom to top. Surely a winglet ought to have a neutral profile and AOA, so that it would generate no pressure differential, less drag, and no tip vortices of its own, and would constitute a buffer zone of “dead air” hindering the flow of air from bottom to top of the main wing.
I will explain more later, but winglets need to generate lift to work. By now suffice to say that another proposed name for this device was "wingtip sail".

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Re: Boeing Deception: 777X Wing Actually Elongated 787 Wing

Postby 3WE » Wed Sep 12, 2018 8:30 pm

By now suffice to say that another proposed name for this device was "wingtip sail".
Why not right-angle-spill-over-blocking-dam-device or RASOBDD?
I will explain more later...
Oh crap... :o :shock: :? :roll: ;) :mrgreen:
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Re: Boeing Deception: 777X Wing Actually Elongated 787 Wing

Postby J » Fri Jan 04, 2019 7:31 pm

The biggest jet engines ever seen are set to roar on Boeing’s 777X

Article with photos including many of Boeing personnel.

The biggest jet engines ever seen are now hanging from the longest wings on any Boeing plane.

Ahead of the new 777X jet’s rollout next month, Boeing offered a first look at these jaw-dropping GE-9X engines inside its Everett assembly plant.

The engine, featuring a huge front fan with 16 carbon composite blades, each twisted into a thin, aerodynamically curved shape, is encased in a carbon composite pod, or nacelle, that gives it a diameter of 184 inches at the widest point.

The engine is the product of an investment of more than $2 billion by General Electric. It was assembled in Durham, N.C., and Peebles, Ohio, from parts built all over the U.S., Europe and Japan. The GE-9X is an evolution of the GE-90 engine, of which more than 2,600 have been delivered. That engine has exclusively powered Boeing’s 777-300ER since it entered service with British Airways in November 1995.

With a maximum engine pod diameter of 166 inches, the GE-90 was previously the world’s biggest jet engine but is now overshadowed by this gigantic GE-9X variant.

The fuselage of a single-aisle Boeing 737 that you might fly on a typical domestic flight would fit comfortably within those outer nacelle dimensions.

Because of the extra aerodynamic efficiency of Boeing’s immense 777X wing, the new engine doesn’t have to be quite as powerful as the current one, delivering 105,000 pounds of thrust compared to the 115,000 pounds from the GE-90. So the GE-9X is projected to burn 10 percent less jet fuel than the current engine.

GE tested the -9X engine in flight for the first time in March 2018, when a test model was mounted to a specially designed pylon on a 747 jumbo jet, replacing one of that test plane’s four much-smaller engines. This spring, the engines will boost the 777X into the sky on its maiden flight, commencing about a year of extensive flight tests.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/b ... ings-777x/

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Re: Boeing Deception: 777X Wing Actually Elongated 787 Wing

Postby J » Fri Jan 18, 2019 2:09 pm

Here is a short video of a ground test of the GE9X engine on the 747 test aircraft. A new sound is coming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akdv87P ... e=youtu.be

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Re: Boeing Deception: 777X Wing Actually Elongated 787 Wing

Postby J » Wed Mar 06, 2019 12:47 pm

Initial Test Flight Scheduled for Wednesday March 13.

https://simpleflying.com/boeing-777x-test-flight/

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Re: Boeing Deception: 777X Wing Actually Elongated 787 Wing

Postby Not_Karl » Wed Mar 06, 2019 5:11 pm

Initial Test Flight Scheduled for Wednesday March 13.

https://simpleflying.com/boeing-777x-test-flight/
Wing-originated In-flight structural break-up within 7 days.
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Re: Boeing Deception: 777X Wing Actually Elongated 787 Wing

Postby elaw » Wed Mar 06, 2019 8:03 pm

No break-up, it just won't fly. Because we're not 100.0000% sure why it can fly.
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Re: Boeing Deception: 777X Wing Actually Elongated 787 Wing

Postby 3WE » Wed Mar 06, 2019 8:30 pm

No break-up, it just won't fly. Because we're not 100.0000% sure why it can fly.
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Re: Boeing Deception: 777X Wing Actually Elongated 787 Wing

Postby J » Thu Mar 07, 2019 11:47 am

No break-up, it just won't fly. Because we're not 100.0000% sure why it can fly.
May I direct your attention to the first post on this thread? To wit:
Bob Feldmann, general manager of the 777X program, in a meeting with journalists .....

“What we learned is this wing loves to fly..."

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Re: Boeing Deception: 777X Wing Actually Elongated 787 Wing

Postby Gabriel » Thu Mar 07, 2019 7:48 pm

May I direct your attention to the first post on this thread? To wit:
Bob Feldmann, general manager of the 777X program, in a meeting with journalists .....

“What we learned is this wing loves to fly..."
Right, it is not that it was designed to fly well or anything. Love's ways are mysterious.

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Re: Boeing Deception: 777X Wing Actually Elongated 787 Wing

Postby Gabriel » Thu Mar 07, 2019 7:50 pm

Do you know the approximate date or year of that performance?

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Re: Boeing Deception: 777X Wing Actually Elongated 787 Wing

Postby elaw » Fri Mar 08, 2019 12:22 pm

I don't but if you look carefully I think you can see a stegosaurus walking past in the background. :lol:

For what it's worth, according to the intarwebs the BBC's first color (oops, colour) broadcast was in 1967 and their programming was pretty much all in color by 1969. And a Wikipedia article implies they first performed that song publicly in 1963. So my best guess is it was sometime between 1963 and 1968.

Also this looks like it may have been the same show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGCkiwAKl6s So my vote is 1965.
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Re: Boeing Deception: 777X Wing Actually Elongated 787 Wing

Postby 3WE » Fri Mar 08, 2019 3:04 pm

Gabieee: ***Love's ways are mysterious.***
That is almost creepy...(or at least the ironing is very thick!)

I agree, but the thought of Gabieee trying to explain love to Evanie….I think the Internet would explode, Gabe's fingers would be totally worn away, and I can't imagine the equations and vortexes that come into play.

Can we isolate it into individual processes or is it a massive, intertwined web of complexity?

Is Evanie even capable of love?

Do any of us truly understand it?

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Re: Boeing Deception: 777X Wing Actually Elongated 787 Wing

Postby J » Fri Mar 15, 2019 5:53 pm

Low Key Rollout for Boeing Employees with various photos and videos.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/trav ... emony.html

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Re: Boeing Deception: 777X Wing Actually Elongated 787 Wing

Postby J » Thu May 16, 2019 4:16 pm

GE 9X Engines Complete Testing
Article includes an image of the GE 9X nacelle which is larger than that of the GE 90, which is larger than the fuselage 737Max, which is...…...... :cry:


https://simpleflying.com/boeing-777x-en ... -complete/

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Re: Boeing Deception: 777X Wing Actually Elongated 787 Wing

Postby J » Thu May 30, 2019 6:18 pm

Initial Test Flight Planned for Late June

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The test flight will likely be too late for Boeing to hit its previous target o flying the 777X to the Paris Air Show, which takes place June 17-23, where it had hoped to make a marketing splash in Airbus’ backyard.

Development of the plane has been slowed by the partial U.S. government shutdown earlier this year and assembly delays on its carbon-composite wings and General Electric Co’s new BE9X engines.

The first two 777X flight test aircraft have left Boeing’s Seattle-area factory and are in integrated system testing on the ground, while the next two flight test airplanes are in final assembly….

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boe ... SKCN1SZ2SU

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Re: Boeing Deception: 777X Wing Actually Elongated 787 Wing

Postby J » Fri Jun 21, 2019 6:15 pm

Boeing releases first video of 777X folding wingtip during Paris Air Show
Also some photos of GE9X Engine

https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/new ... lding.html

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Re: Boeing Deception: 777X Wing Actually Elongated 787 Wing

Postby Sickbag » Mon Jul 01, 2019 8:49 am

Boeing releases first video of 777X folding wingtip during Paris Air Show
Also some photos of GE9X Engine

https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/new ... lding.html
it needs to flap faster, it'll never get into the air at that speed.
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Re: Boeing Deception: 777X Wing Actually Elongated 787 Wing

Postby Not_Karl » Mon Jul 01, 2019 10:39 am

it needs to flap faster, it'll never get into the air at that speed.
That's good, less chances of total air disasters.
(total rail disasters still possible)
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Re: Boeing Deception: 777X Wing Actually Elongated 787 Wing

Postby J » Wed Jan 22, 2020 6:01 pm

Boeing 777X will take to the skies Thursday (January 23)

Boeing’s updated 777 wide-body is set to fly for the first time Thursday, beginning a series of test flights needed before the aircraft can be certified for commercial service.

The flight is to take off around 10 a.m. local time (1 p.m. ET) at Boeing’s assembly line facility near Everett, Washington.

The 777X is the latest update to the wide-body airframe that took its maiden flight in 1994 and first came into service about a year later with United Airlines.

Thursday’s flight signals the start of “the next phase of its rigorous test program,” according to Boeing spokesman Paul Bergman. But, he added, the flight could still get pushed to another day.

“Flight testing is dynamic,” Bergman wrote in a statement. “The date could change due to weather and other factors.”

The test flight has already been delayed due to issues with General Electric’s GE9X engines, which have had to undergo a redesign.

This newest version of of the 777 will be the biggest twin-engine passenger jet ever built, capable of seating well over 400 passengers for the larger variant, known as 777-9. The smaller 777-8 will be able to fly farther. Collectively, the two are referred to as 777X. Only the 777-9 has been built so far.

Overall – at 251 feet, 9 inches for the bigger “dash-9 variant” – the 777X will be longer than Boeing’s current-generation 777 models.

https://thepointsguy.com/news/boeing-77 ... -thursday/

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Re: Boeing Deception: 777X Wing Actually Elongated 787 Wing

Postby 3WE » Wed Jan 22, 2020 7:44 pm

The flight is to take off around 10 a.m. local time (1 p.m. ET)
2:45 PM ET.

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Postby elaw » Wed Jan 22, 2020 8:56 pm

A quick search of the intertubes indicates the first flight is supposed to happen Thursday January 23, which may be "today" for some people but for me it's tomorrow.. today. :?
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Re: Boeing Deception: 777X Wing Actually Elongated 787 Wing

Postby J » Thu Jan 23, 2020 1:13 pm

POSTPONED

From Boeing:
We are postponing the #777X first flight that was scheduled to take place tomorrow, Jan. 23, due to weather. The team is currently assessing the possibility of flying on January 24. Stay tuned for updates.
7:01 PM - 22 Jan 2020

https://twitter.com/BoeingAirplanes/sta ... 3250310145


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