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by Jon Ostrower on January 30, 2012 in Uncategorised

Building on last Fridays post about unlocking customers to evaluate competing airframers products, I wanted to look a bit closer at the
changes Airbus and Boeing made to develop their respective second generation 777s and A340s. For Boeing, the aircraft maker would
evolve the 777-200ER and -300 into the the 777-300ER, -200LR and freighter, while Airbus would take its A340-300 and -200 to become the
A340-600 and -500.
I went digging into the Flight International archive to find the technical evolution of each model and the structural changes that were required
from their respective baseline designs. The changes to create the longer range A340s were significantly more extensive with its stretched
wingbox, fuselage and revised empennage.
With its raised main landing gear, raked wingtip extensions and structural strengthening, the 777, by comparison did not need a fuselage
stretch as the original 777-200 and -300 established the airframes for the -200LR and -300ER.
October 1996 A340-500/600 soft launch

March 1997 777-200X/300X launch

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Additional details of the 777 and A340s evolution are below the fold.
September 1998

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