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 ...

The Boeing 777, perhaps one of the most popular widebody aircraft ever built, has a unique feature missing when compared to other aircraft, which is the absence of winglets. The 777 was designed ...

Aviation Partners, Inc. (API) have announced that the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) granted Supplemental Type Certificate approval for its High Mach Blended Winglets on the Falcon 50 series ...

“These actively controlled wingtips have the potential to further reduce civil aircraft fuel consumption by about 2.5 percent compared with conventional winglets,” says Walter Stephan, Chairman of ...

With Digital Winglets™ Porter saves 2-3 Percent of Fuel Per Optimized Flight and Improves On-time Performance Network-wide Digital Winglets™ provides a powerful suite of tools that allow us to ...

Jet2 is expecting to complete a winglet modification programme for its Boeing 737-800 fleet this summer. The UK leisure carrier has 93 737-800s and is retrofitting dozens of them with split-scimitar ...

B737 MAX aircraft was released in 2011. It is expected to be officially delivered in 2017, which is an important part of the new series Boeing launched. B737 MAX is characterized with high fuel ...