The Boeing 777X is different from other planes because its wingtips fold, helping a massive wingspan fit into regular airport gates.

The Boeing 777X's new carbon-fiber wingtips can be folded up by the pilots with the press of a button. Boeing The FAA has certified the folding wingtips that Boeing has installed on its Boeing 777X, ...

The aircraft's design is intriguing: Folding wingtips will let the 777X fit at existing airport gates while still giving the wings the lift they need. Kent was a senior managing editor at CNET News. A ...

The Boeing 777, perhaps one of the most popular widebody aircraft ever built, has a unique feature missing when compared to other aircraft, which is the absence of winglets. The 777 was designed ...

Boeing's new flagship 777X aircraft is the first commercial plane with folding wingtips. Airport gate space concerns ignited the need for the new folding mechanism. The aircraft has garnered 481 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In just a couple years, airport spotters could see something new taxiing to their gate: an airplane with its wings folded up.

LOS ANGELES AND SEATTLE – After two days of delays caused by bad weather Boeing’s 777-9, the first of the company’s new long range 777X flagship family, successfully completed its initial test flight ...

The 777X is already pivotal to Boeing’s future, but the newly begun flight-test and certification campaign for the long-range flagship has assumed even greater significance as the company strives to ...

A folding wing-tip on a commercial airliner is never supposed to fail. With the first such mechanism scheduled to enter service on the 777X family in two years, Boeing set a goal to design a folding ...

German firm Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg is to supply crucial components for the folding wing-tip mechanism on the Boeing 777X. The 3.5m folding tips will reduce the type’s wing span to less than 65m ...

In just a couple years, airport spotters could see something new taxiing to their gate: an airplane with its wings folded up. Boeing is preparing to unleash its “folding wingtip” design around the ...