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Boeing 777*
Commercial Airplane
A N ENGINEERING MARVEL
60 ft 9 in.
(18.5 m)199 ft 11 in.
(60.9 m)209 ft 1 in.
(63.7 m)70 ft 7.5 in.
(21.5 m)36 ft 0 in.
(11.0 m)70 ft 7.5 in.
(21.5 m)- Materials were adapted with permission from Boeing documents.
Overview
The Boeing 777 is the first commercial airplane that was fully designed using three-dimensional
digital solid modeling technology. The core of the design group consisted of 238 teams that
included engineers of various backgrounds. A number of international aerospace companies,62080_16_ch16_p504-549.qxd 5/22/10 12:31 AM Page 544
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