Winglets are devices installed at the end of an aircraft's wings. They have become a popular addition for most modern commercial aircraft as they greatly increase an aircraft's efficiency. By reducing ...

Aviation Partners Boeing (APB) has had to delay the planned supplemental type certification (STC) of a winglet-equipped Boeing 737-300 retrofit due to low-speed handling issues discovered during the ...

737 winglet work for FLS Aerospce FLS Aerospace has just completed blended winglet modifications on 11 Boeing 737-800s operated by Air Berlin, achieving an average 11-day turnround. Blended winglets ...

Aviation Partners Boeing (APB) announced it has launched its new Split Scimitar Winglet program with an order from United Airlines. Using a newly patented design, the program will consist of ...

Alaska Air yesterday joined several other airlines, including Continental and KLM, in becoming a launch customer for the first blended winglets designed for the Boeing 737-900. "Our long-haul flying ...

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 airlines to display their ...

In one of the most famous "Twilight Zone" stories, an airline passenger looks out the window of a commercial plane and is horrified to see a monstrous gremlin on the wing. If you were to do the same ...

He entered the pitch-dark hangar and stared into its inky emptiness. Suddenly, two brilliant shafts of blue light cut downward through the murk, focused on a pair of vertical blades taller than a ...