787 wing flex

On Nov 8, 1:02 am, wrote:
On Nov 7, 6:50 pm, Kingfish wrote:

I noticed in all the publicity pictures of the 787 and 747-8 that the
wings flex to the point that the tips are well above the top of the
fuselage. Just a guess here, but is this due to the composite
construction of the plane? I'm assuming the spar(s) are composite as
well as the fuselage barrel. Then again, the 747-8 is all metal IIRC.
What gives?

The 777 wing flexes that much as well, I guess you must not have
noticed.

I was referring to the pics of the 787 and 747-8 on Boeing's site -
however I did have another look-see at the xwind 777 landing videos on
Jay's site and the flex isn't even close to what is depicted in the PR
drawings. Like Airbus said it's probably just the artist taking a bit
of poetic license.