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Old Posted Dec 20, 2016, 8:21 PM
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Originally Posted by electricron View Post
I can't see one of these blended wing designed jetliners using existing gate ramps at airports. Wide body jetliners today require the space of two smaller aircraft, these monsters might require space of three smaller aircraft.

Efficiency on the ground at the gates should count as much as it does in the air.
Maybe they could go with a smaller design in the 300-passenger class instead of an 800-passenger monster depicted in those renderings.
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