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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by sbradford26 on Thursday February 14, 2019 @07:36AM (#19161403)
So the 777x is the one you are talking about and it will come standard with folding wingtips, but the original 777 had an option for folding wingtips and no one ordered them.

I am not sure if Boeing had it developed and never used it, or no one ordered it so they never developed it.

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Re:Airbus will stop building the A380 in 2021 by xxpor on Thursday February 14, 2019 @10:10AM (#19162384)
Notably, the folding tips on the 777x get the wingspan down to the original 777 span.

Theyre in the middle of building what I think was the first 777x. We saw it in the Everett factory last Friday.

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