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 ...

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 ...

API has certified its split scimitar winglet on all models of the Boeing 737NG, including the Boeing Business Jet variant. Credit: Aviation Partners, Inc. Anyone who occupies a window seat with a ...

He and Dennis Washington, the aircraft’s owner, formed Aviation Partners Inc. (API) with the goal of adapting evolving winglet technology to boost the Gulfstream’s numbers. They assembled an ...

Portland, OR, July 06, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to the report published by Allied Market Research, the global winglets market generated $2.4 billion in 2021, and is projected to reach $4 ...