Maiden flight of Boeing 777X

The largest ever built twin-engine jet returned safely after its maiden flight on Saturday, January 25 and made aviation history. The brand-new Boeing 777X. It has been designed to carry up to 426 passengers in a two class configuration. The initial customer is British Airwaysin order to replace the Boeing 747 Jumbo.

The Boeing 777X flew east and was there in the air for hours, made turns, flew southwest to the Mount Rainier area to do a circuit for publicity photos. At the Boeing Field in Seattle it finally touched down to the applause from Boeing's employees. At the world’s airports for a quarter century the Boeing 777 has been a familiar sight and the ‘X’ version is known to have a wider fuselage which has larger engines and wider wings that spans 235 feet.

The 777X has been put in the SuperJumbo category due to the wingspace in the ICAO code F category. This will significantly restrict the number of airports in which it will be used.