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 ...

Airbus will begin flight-testing winglets for the A320 family next month to evaluate various designs under development with US carrier JetBlue Airways. Airbus says it will flight-test two different ...

Toyota is taking to the public sidewalks of Japan with the Winglet, its two-wheeled personal mobility robot that looks like a miniature Segway. The trial, designed to test the Winglet's safety and ...

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 ...

A Wichita winglet design firm plans to set a transcontinental speed record this week in a modified Cessna Citation X, the world’s speediest business jet in operation. The plane is retrofitted with ...

Sukhoi's civil aircraft division has wrapped up flight-testing of its winglet-equipped version of the Superjet 100. Sukhoi's civil aircraft division has wrapped up flight-testing of its ...

Airbus on Wednesday flew one of its A320 jets with new winglets designed and developed by Seattle company Aviation Partners. The flight in Toulouse, France, is part of an Airbus evaluation to see if ...

If you ever wish you could just glide along because walking is too much effort, then Toyota’s latest invention is just what you need. The Japanese auto-maker showcased a personal mobility product ...

We might all be familiar with the efficiency benefits that winglets can provide, but our ideas of what they’re supposed to look like are quickly changing. Boeing on Wednesday revealed the design for ...

Winglets have been growing in popularity as an add-on to fuel hungry airplanes around the planet. Attached at the extremity of each wing, they act to manage the flow of air passing the craft, reducing ...

A successful test flight this week by a Boeing 737-800 equipped with a shiny new set of split scimitar winglets has given the green light for United’s plans to install them widely across its 737 fleet ...