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 ...

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 ...

Although, winglets have been around since the mid-1970s, there is still a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and angles. Analyzing winglets to find the optimal characteristics to result in the lowest net ...

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 ...

Millions of consumers trust airlines with their lives each day, but few passengers understand how these massive flying tubes stay airborne and why they look the way they do. I don't remember jets ...

Sukhoi's civil aircraft division has wrapped up flight-testing of its winglet-equipped version of the Superjet 100. Sukhoi's civil aircraft division has wrapped up flight-testing of its ...

Dassault is updating its business jets. Its API winglet-equipped Falcon 2000LX, announced at the EBACE business aviation show in 2007 and recently certificated in Europe and the USA, was joined in ...