747/777 Smack Down

I disagree with the assertion of superior engineering efficiency of the Boeing 747 relative to the 777 and 787 that Manfred A. Runkel touted (AW&ST Aug. 10, p. 8). The claim that faster is necessarily better is clearly not true. The original 777 was vastly superior to the 747 in several ways...

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