{"id":362027,"date":"2026-02-04T14:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T04:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-boeing-777x-different-wings-original-777\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T14:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T04:00:17","slug":"why-does-the-boeing-777x-have-different-wings-than-the-original-777","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=362027","title":{"rendered":"Why Does The Boeing 777X Have Different Wings Than The Original 777?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At first glance, the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3525573\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing-777x\/\"  >Boeing 777X<\/a><\/span> may look like a stretched and modernized version of the original 777. After all, it <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/striking-differences-boeing-777x-predecessors\/\" >shares the same basic fuselage shape that has made the 777 one of the most successful long-haul aircraft in history<\/a>. However, one feature immediately stands out \u2014 the wings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boeing 777X&#8217;s folding wingtips are one of the aircraft&#8217;s most innovative design features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,8428,398,669,919,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-design","category-boeing","category-boeing-777x","category-emirates","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362028,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362027\/revisions\/362028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}