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Boeing ranges wide for 200LR orders
Boeing says it can squeeze another 600 nm of range out of the new 777-200LR by adding three fuel tanks, giving the world’s longest-range commercial airline

Boeing says it can squeeze another 600 nm of range out of the new 777-200LR by adding three fuel tanks, giving the world’s longest-range commercial airliner the ability to fly in revenue service as far as 10,000 nm. But for all its efforts to break distance records and market the airplane in every corner of the globe, by the start of this month Boeing had yet to attract the kind of attention it really wants–firm orders beyond the pair of sales for five airplanes it had so far accumulated.

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