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Old 6th Oct 2014, 17:36
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Allan Lupton
 
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I didn't do it to shoot you down but thought the comparison might be interesting - which it is.

By the 1960s we were all using around double those wing loadings, e.g.
Boeing 707-320B: 111.15
Douglas DC-8-63: 119.58
Convair 990A: 112.44
Douglas DC-9-40: 113.89
Trident 3B: 103.82
Super VC-10: 114.26

and by now we can offer
A380: 139.78
B787-10: 159.10
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