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 world changed. Boeing didn’t add blended winglets at first because, for its ...

Boeing calls the odd-looking upturned wingtips on aircraft “blended winglets,” Airbus calls them “sharklets” and Southwest Airlines, in ads, simply calls them “little doo-hickeys.” Whatever the name, ...

Aviation Partners is at Paris having passed the 100 shipset landmark for its blended winglet technology. Developed for the Gulfstream II and Boeing BBJ business jets, it is now being actively ...

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 ...

Airlines operate on very small profit margins and are therefore constantly looking for ways to cut costs. New and advanced engine technology, specialty loyalty programs, composite airframe materials, ...

Aviation Partners, Inc. (API) based in Seattle, Washington, recently announced that its unique (and trademarked) Blended Winglet and Split Scimitar Winglet technologies have saved the world’s ...

At the Paris Air Show in 1997, Boeing's Borge Boeskov approached Joe Clark of Aviation Partners about possibly putting the small Seattle company's very big blended winglets on the planned Boeing ...

American Airlines flew one of its Boeing 767 aircraft with blended winglets on 20 July after winglet manufacturer GKN Aerospace delivered a set to Aviation Partners Boeing for certification testing ...

SEATTLE, Wash. – Aviation Partners Boeing announced today that Santiago-based LAN Airlines has ordered 10 additional Blended Winglet Systems for Boeing 767-300ER passenger and freighter aircraft.

Seattle-based Aviation Partners Inc.(API) is testing a futuristic-looking split scimitar blended winglet design. The split scimitar blended winglet is a follow-on design from API’s blended winglet ...

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 ...

If you choose to sleep with an elephant, just be careful it doesn't roll over during the night. The advice, and warning, came from a well regarded aerospace executive of a small company who years ago ...