In one of the most famous "Twilight Zone" stories, an airline passenger looks out the window of a commercial plane and is horrified to see a monstrous gremlin on the wing. If you were to do the ...

Winglets are the vertical tips at the end of a plane's wing, and they serve a few important functions. In 1897, British aerodynamicist Frederick W. Lancaster patented "wing endplates," vertical ...

Winglets reduce wingtip vortices, the twin tornados formed by the difference between the pressure on the upper surface of an airplane's wing and that on the lower surface. High pressure on the ...

These end-of-wing devices, known as winglets, were developed to reduce drag, improve fuel efficiency and extend range. As an aircraft flies, it creates a pressure differential between the lower ...

He and Dennis Washington, the aircraft’s owner, formed Aviation Partners Inc. (API) with the goal of adapting evolving winglet technology to boost the Gulfstream’s numbers. They assembled an ...

The new paint schemes will include a larger JetBlue logo, as well as extending the tailfin pattern to the underside of the aircraft, where it will be easier to spot from the ground. Winglets will ...

Alaska Airlines planes clipped wings at the Seattle-Tacoma airport, prompting an FAA investigation. Passengers were safely ...