Alaska Air yesterday joined several other airlines, including Continental and KLM, in becoming a launch customer for the first blended winglets designed for the Boeing 737-900. "Our long-haul flying ...

Aviation Partners Boeing (APB) announced it has launched its new Split Scimitar Winglet program with an order from United Airlines. Using a newly patented design, the program will consist of ...

Why has Boeing failed to match up against Airbus in the world of large narrowbody airliners?

SEATTLE, WA – Aviation Partners Boeing (APB) announced today that Aerovias de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. (Aeromexico) has ordered Split Scimitar Winglets for its Boeing Next-Generation 737-800 aircraft.

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 ...

SEATTLE — Airlines and other operators flying Boeing jets have saved billions of gallons of aviation fuel thanks to winglets — wing-tip attachments that curve up and sometimes down, according to ...

Why does the Boeing 737 MAX wear such distinctive, split-tip winglets compared to earlier generations of the aircraft? At first glance, these sculpted tips are both futuristic and unusual, but the ...

Boeing's 737 programme chief Beverly Wyse expects the "Advanced Technology" winglet it has developed for its new Max family to deliver performance improvement over the design on the current family.

(CNN) — 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 ...