Overhead

Boeing

Boeing 757

United Airlines Boeing 757-200 taxiing at Boston, three-quarter rear view showing its long slender body and four-wheel main landing gear legs.
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From below

The view you'll actually get from high overhead.

United Airlines Boeing 757-200 seen directly from below departing Boston, showing the underside outline and narrow, tapered wing.
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Field marks

  1. Long, slender, "stretched" body on a comparatively narrow, short wing — looks pulled taut compared to any A320-family jet
  2. Distinctly tall landing gear stance keeps the underslung engines off the ground on this narrow-body
  3. Four wheels on each main landing-gear leg — no other narrow-body in this fleet has more than two
  4. Pointed, needle-like nose profile, sharper than the A320 family

Specs

Length
47.32 m
Wingspan
38.05 m
Engines
Rolls-Royce RB211 / Pratt & Whitney PW2000
Typical seats
178–214

Size and shape, to scale

Photos can't hold a consistent scale from shot to shot — these silhouettes are all drawn at the same 10 px = 1 m scale, so the proportions here are trustworthy even though the photos above aren't.

Variant notes

  • The 757-200 dominates the surviving fleet; the stretched 757-300 (54.4 m) is rare, mostly with Delta and United
  • Roughly evenly split between blended upturned-blade wingtip retrofits (FAA-approved since 2005) and unmodified plain tips
  • No split-blade tip ("split scimitar") was ever certified or offered for the 757 — the blended upturned blade remains the only retrofit option

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