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In September 2011,Boeing released the information about the 777X series,including two types of aircraft which are named 777-8X and 777-9X,comparing with its predecessor 777-300ER ,777-9X can contain 407 passengers,its fuselage will be 2.13 meters longer,which will be 76.5 meters and become the longest aircraft in the world,also it will have longer horizontal stabilizer and longer wings,and because the wings are so long(71.8 meters),Boeing decided to make the wings foldable on the ground. So undeniably,777X will be an amazing type of aircraft,because all the statistics show that this is an efficient and comfortable aircraft,and of course,it will be very enjoyable to look at.In spite of Boeing assure that their new aircraft will be very safe,a lot of people still have worries in 777X's foldable wings.It is very normal that people will have concerns when they first hear of such thing like that,because it sounds very unsafe,what if the wings are not strong enough and split in half wh...

Nowadays,travelling with planes is a very common thing,people's passion of airplanes when they were invented quickly become frustration,endlessly delay and missing the flight makes people become more and more dislike planes,or at least,thinks it's just a usual thing to do. I'm not going to talk about why I love airplanes right away,instead,let's go back to the time when airplanes were still thousands of years away from been invented,when the only people can travel is by their feet.Back in that time,travelling wasn't an hourly or daily thing,it was something that took people their entire life time to do,when people finally arrived at their destination,normally they won't leave again.For thousands of years,our top speed on land remained the same,until one day,something called"wheel"was invented,but it was simply a piece of plank on two logs,so our speed on land was still very limited.Then,when we began to explore the ocean,we traveled much faster,we con...