On Wednesday, July 17, 1996, at 8:19 p.m., TWA Flight 800 took off from JFK airport and headed out over Long Island toward Paris. It was a perfect summer night, 70 degrees, the sky clear.

Kathy Kompare and Stephanie Johnson each spent more than two decades working as cabin crew for U.S carrier Trans World Airlines (TWA), which they say was known as the 'epitome of sophistication ...

Don't worry — that's perfectly normal. That tip is called a winglet, and commercial airlines have been incorporating them into the design of their smaller and medium-sized planes for the past ...

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 ...

My friend's dad used to fly for TWA and says that they do ... Q: I have noticed the 737s with winglets are using much longer takeoff rolls. I suspect this is due to derating the engines ...

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 ...

I don't remember jets having winglets when I was a kid, but on a recent work trip I took notice of the winglets on all the planes at the airport. Winglets are the vertical tips at the end of a ...

This 2001 Nine special tells the story of St. Louis-based Trans World Airlines (TWA). This 2001 Nine special tells the story of St. Louis-based Trans World Airlines (TWA). The story of how the ...