Boeing 737 Max

[legoboyvdlp]

Nevertheless, she is a beauty

[HJ1an]

[KL-666]

I used to travel a lot on the 707. When i see the longer types 737 nowadays, they carry probably more passengers on just 2 engines. Good economic advance that is.

About the looks of this 737: It still makes me think of the good old 707. But nose up (or nose down) positions i do not like. A plane should be level with the ground plane. This 737 makes slightly the impression of a Connie this way.

Kind regards, Vincent.

[HJ1an]

Speaking of the 'squat' gears and the ground clearance problem of the 737.. Can't they use the gear and wing box from the 707, or if that is too old, the 757? Even if the tooling for both are no longer around, they could still make new ones. I mean they took the effort to lengthen the gears itself, might as well... they have done this before on the narrowbodies...

[HJ1an]

Here's a nicer one from Boeing..

[Octal450]

Not bad.

I always thought the 737 was an ugly plane, I much preferred the Airbus A320. However, this MAX doesn't look to bad. The main issues I hated was the engines and the pitch down attitude. I like how the Airbus A320, 777, and MD-11 are level to the ground as Vincent said.

Now we wait for someone to model it for FlightGear. (Probably not me, I have waaaay to many planes to do)

Regards,

[HJ1an]

I'd just noticed - usually the first flights I've seen, they kept the landing gear down throughout - did Boeing just retract the landing gear on their first flight?

[legoboyvdlp]

The 777 did that two if I remember correctly. They were confident in the design -- so much they shutdown an engine in the first flight and restarted it

[HJ1an]

The 777 did that two if I remember correctly. They were confident in the design -- so much they shutdown an engine in the first flight and restarted it

Really? Would you mind providing the source of this information so I could have a read on it?

I only knew they shut down the engine for the ETOPS testing and flew around for hours on it just for kicks. I didn't know they did it on the first flight.

[legoboyvdlp]

Have a look on youtube for 'twenty first century airliner boeing 777 episode 5'

Try this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4vEfZFx4hk


Not too certain about the gear, but they certainly shut the engine down.