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| Lift vs. drag Hamilton, ON July 2022 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
It’s easy to understand why: when they set out to create a short-range, twin-jet almost 60 years ago, the company’s engineers basically took the fuselage of a 707, lopped off a good chunk of its length, and mounted it on landing gear low enough to allow easy access at smaller airports.
It was lovingly nicknamed Fat Albert because of its short, pudgy look, and the name has stuck as Boeing has stretched and morphed the original design into today’s ill-starred MAX models. But it’s easy to see those old, chunky bones if you look closely enough. Check out the entry for “Frankenplane” in the dictionary and you’ll see a 737.
And yet, if you look at something Just So, sometimes you’ll see an angle or a facet that betrays that engineered-in ugliness.
So when I found myself staring straight-on at the wing and split-scimitar winglet of a 737-800 Next-Gen, I paused for a few minutes to take in its perfectly engineered loveliness.
Nice job, Boeing, even if you’re long past the point at which you should have come up with a clean-sheet design for the rest of the plane.
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