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 ...

The story of the Boeing 757 and its winglets isn’t about fixing a mistake. It’s about how a strong design adapted as the ...

Like the way birds curl their wingtip feathers upward, airplanes can fly more efficiently with these winglets. This saves fuel and reduces CO2. Forty-four years ago this July, NASA began testing a ...

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 laws of aerodynamics haven’t changed since Frederick W. Lanchester patented the winglet in 1897, so planes equipped with the aero feature enjoy reduced drag and can climb higher and faster, ...

U.S. active winglet specialist Tamarack Aerospace Group, which recently announced its commercial aviation debut on the De Havilland Canada Dash 8 Q400, is also planning to offer an active winglet ...

NASA's innovation in aviation technology continues with the development of "Digital Winglets," a software designed to enhance real-time flight paths for increased efficiency and fuel savings. The ...

In this lifetime, you should have at least boarded a plane either locally, internationally, or better yet, seen one in the skies. It is human to marvel and admire the sleek aluminum bird defying ...

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 ...