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 ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — Boeing Co. announced a new twist last week to its design for the forthcoming 737 Max jet: a raked, “dual feather” winglet concept that it says will provide an extra 1.5 percent gain in fuel ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Winglets aren’t there for style — they’re there to fight a brutal aerodynamic problem most people never notice: wingtip vortices that steal lift and waste fuel. Once fuel prices rose, manufacturers ...

The Boeing Co. plans to change the wingtip design of the P-8A Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft (MMA) to improve the jet's performance in harsh weather, especially icy conditions, company officials said ...