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 their wings. On older examples of the aircraft, there may ...

Winglets reduce wingtip vortices, ... "We find that it really doesn't matter what kind of wingtip device you use-they're all like span," he says. "The devil is in the details.

Minix claims its design can save as much as 6% on an aircraft's energy costs. For a commercial Boeing 747, that equates to a saving of around 600,000 gallons of fuel - per year, per aircraft. Food ...

PARIS (Reuters) – European planemaker Airbus announced plans on Tuesday to retrofit fuel-saving wingtips on older versions of its A320 jets as sales of its best-selling aircraft hit 10,000.The ...

Boeing on Wednesday unveiled a new double-edged winglet that it says will save more fuel on its re-engined 737 MAX airplane. The interesting thing is that it looks something like a supersized ...

Leonardo says it has completed inflight demonstrations of a morphing wingtip and winglet developed as part of the European Union’s Clean Sky aerospace research and technology initiative. The ...

Airbus uses a wingtip device it calls "sharklets," which will appear on the upcoming A320neo, a update of its narrowbody aircraft that promises 15 percent savings. Aviation Partners declined to ...

European planemaker Airbus <EAD.PA> said on Sunday its planned large wingtip devices on the A320 aircraft will reduce fuel burn by 3.5 percent and save about $220,000 a year per plane.

Aviation Partners’ Falcon 50, fitted with “spiroid” wingtip devices, made a grand public debut at the EAA AirVenture. The unique aircraft’s arrival in Oshkosh, Wis., on July 25 was only ...