While the ac is a great milestone for them, it's the P1000G GTF that is really significant for aviation.
In reality, I was not all that impressed with the wing design of this ac. While the engines are really far forward, which will really help, the engines appear to be far too large for this ac, and I note quite a bit of ancient technology in the design of the wing and other areas.
The tail of this ac is really odd to me as well...
Edit: SMT. in regards to UPS, you should note that they have contracted with FedEx to sort and move their packages. I would expect to not see too much moving forward with the UPS air fleet, perhaps only in areas where FedEx does not fly...
Last edited by underfire; 18th Sep 2013 at 20:02.