L ooking at any of the existing variants of the Airbus A320, it is possible to see a few different things on the ends of ...

However, several different types of winglets are on the market today, with the most common being blended winglets and split scimitar winglets. These are specifically designed to be retrofitted to ...

Look out of the window of a passenger airplane, and there’s a good chance you’ll spot an upturned “winglet” at the end of the wing. While they’re a handy place to display the airline’s ...

Winglets predate the Wright brothers, ... Then (same as now) fuel accounted for 40 to 50 percent of operating costs of a single flight, depending on the type of airliner used.

Winglets are curved up at the end, and it's not because it looks cool — this shape is the very reason why they make planes more fuel efficient. Flying without winglets is a drag — literally NASA ...

Jacopo Prisco, CNN What caught your eye the last time you looked out of your airplane window? It might have been the winglet, a now ubiquitous appendage at the end of each wing, often used by ...

Asked about weight savings, Galpin says more modern CFRP types of winglets offer about a 10-20% reduction each compared with older winglets. However, ...

FACC manufactures wingtips for various types of aircraft and played a major role in the development of the latest winglet technologies, the Blended Winglets with a continuous bend from the root to the ...

Tamarack Aerospace Group has achieved another Supplemental Type Certificate for its ATLAS Active Winglets, this time for the Cessna Citation CJ2 and CJ2+, otherwise known as the C525A series ...

Jacopo Prisco, CNN What caught your eye the last time you looked out of your airplane window? It might have been the winglet, a now ubiquitous appendage at the end of each wing, often used by ...

Look out of the window of a passenger airplane, and there’s a good chance you’ll spot an upturned “winglet” at the end of the wing. While they’re a handy place to display the airline’s ...