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I thought a Jumbo Jet was a 747 only. Mintguy
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Are the C-17 and C-141 not also wide-body aircraft as well as the C-5? Rmhermen 17:23 Feb 19, 2003 (UTC)
so the c-5 has only one extra foot in height and width than the c-17 although 55 feet extra length.
so the c-141 is in fact quite a bit smaller. Rmhermen 18:16 Feb 19, 2003 (UTC)
The article states that widebodies have a cross-section of over 5m. The cross-section of the Boeing 767 is 4,7 m. Is it really a widebody?--Arado 18:06, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
I've added a picture of the Airbus fuselage cross-section, but I cannot quite remember which model it is. I think it's an A300, but can anyone confirm this? The picture is from the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany, if that helps. Thanks. Asiir 14:38, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Appropos the Jumbo comments: Jumbo was the name of a very celebrated elephant with the PT Barnum circus. I think it became a word to describe anything huge. Which of course, made it perfect for the launch of the 747, an aircraft that Juan Trippe of Pan Am and the Boeing Company bet their shirts on. My submission is that Jumbo Jet refers only to the 747 and no other aircraft, and the fact that any wide-body is a 'jumbo' aircraft does not count in this matter.
On another note, I may remember reading that the word 'cockpit' became a common way to refer to the flight deck after the 747, and it was a term jocularly used by the Yanks on the 747 design team because they were familiar with the roosters roosting (!) in the topmost part of any barn. All this is from memory, and requires checking and verification.
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PolarYukon (talk) 12:08, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
This may be a very peripheral topic, but could someone describe whether there is any reality to the Hollywood movie idea where people go back and forth from the passenger cabin to the baggage compartment in flight using a hatch, dumbwaiter, ventilation shaft, spiral staircase... Wnt (talk) 16:19, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
Should CX and SQ be taken off the list of airlines exclusively operating widebodies due to Dragonair (CX) and SilkAir (SQ) operating A320s? Flight cx873 (talk) 01:53, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
Visually the Tupolev Tu-114 does not look like a widebody. However, I have a book that says the Tu-114 was occasionally set up with seven-abreast seating. Was this four seats one one side of a single aisle, and three on the other? Or did it actually have two aisles in this configuration? If the latter is the case then wouldn't the airplane qualify as a widebody? -- Gyrofrog (talk) 21:18, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
Does the Bristol Brabazon warrant mention in this article? That article mentions a 25-foot diameter fuselage, and a book review I read this morning calls it the first wide-body. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 14:15, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
I think it needs to be removed. The Boeing 377 flew in 1947 transatlantic, same passenger volume and had two decks. The bristol flew 1949 and never went into production. I have removed it, if a problem please discuss. Jacob805 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.64.176.178 (talk) 12:31, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
I would offer that the jumbo jet article remain separate from wide-body aircraft. Jumbo jet is a special term with its own meaning. We need to find some accurate source(s), but the term jumbo jet really only refers to the Boeing 747, when used in commercial aviation. It is not used to generically refer to wide-body aircraft, as the current version of the article states.
Thank you for your consideration. PolarYukon (talk) 21:48, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
What are your thoughts on this section of the article? There are no citations in this section, and it is questionable what value this section brings to the article as a whole.
If someone finds the information useful, we can create a new category to contain the listed airlines.
Cheers, PolarYukon (talk) 03:58, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: page not moved. Arbitrarily0 (talk) 14:16, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
Wide-body aircraft → Widebody aircraft —
"wide-bodied" aircraft
vs. "widebodied" aircraft
is no contest: 101000 to 21600 hits using Google (web search), 53 to 2 using Google News and 25700 to 956 using Google Books.) TheFeds 00:56, 18 May 2010 (UTC)// copied and inserted from polarYukon talk page //
Hi. On SeatGuru [1] you can see that the seatwidth in Lufthansa's economy class is 20.5 and i think thats something that should be in the article because it´s the widest seatwidth in the Airbus A380. EWR" 17:40, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
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There should be a mention about how for the first two years after the introduction of wide-body aircraft into commercial aviation the planes were considered to be the safest aircraft to fly on because they didn't crash. It wasn't until Eastern Flight 401 crashed in December 1972 that this myth disappeared. And it wasn't until 1973 when the airplanes started being linked to wake turbulence and the crashes of smaller aircraft. --Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû (blah?) 23:13, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
I am wondering if the table of Specification of wide body aircraft is misplaced. Each basic type is made in a range of specifications to meed differing customer requirements, and compiling all the variations that have been used just for the sake of it is not really encyclopedic. I would suggest that only the fuselage outside diameter is significant, and that could be entered in the Description column of the standard List of wide-body aircraft.
So - is there anything in this table that should not be either merged into the List of wide-body aircraft or deleted? — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 16:01, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
The section on future development states "Airbus and Boeing are racing to market with two new widebody designs, currently in development". The citation is broken and it is unclear which aircraft this sentence refers to. Propose revising to state specific aircraft or remove since I believe there are no widebody airframes that are in development (A350 first delivery is made, all other "in development" airframe are iterative). Also, the follow-on sentence refers to B787 and A380 competition. Both aircraft are no longer in development. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.74.153.36 (talk) 01:53, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
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Why are seat widths calculated rather than sourced. What assumptions are being made in the calculation, are they justified? If the seat width can't be sourced then they ought to be removed. GraemeLeggett (talk) 11:30, 20 May 2023 (UTC)