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 ...

The Minix wing tip can be retrofitted to any aircraft wing. Its cylindrical shape prevents the airstream from trying to 'curl' around the edge of the wing, which is how the wing-tip vortex is ...

The interesting thing is that it looks something like a supersized version of Airbus' old wingtip device, which the European plane maker just ditched in favor of "sharklets" that resemble Boeing's ...

Winglets reduce wingtip vortices, the twin tornados formed by the difference between the pressure on the upper surface of an airplane's wing and that on the lower surface. High pressure on the ...

Airbus says the slanted wingtips, which it calls sharklets, will cut fuel costs by up to 4 percent and increase range by up to 100 nautical miles. The wingtip devices are already available on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Or the Micromechanical Flying Insect (MFI) Project, an effort to develop a 25 mm (wingtip-to-wingtip) device capable of sustained autonomous flight.

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.

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.

These new planes were also made with a sharklet, which is a wingtip device designed to improve payload and fuel economy by up to 3.5%.