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 ...

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.

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, ...

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, ...

As its latest blended winglet application enters service with Continental Airlines on the 757-200, Aviation Partners Boeing (APB) is eyeing further aircraft for the modification such as the 767, 777 ...

Aviation Partners Boeing (APB) and Continental Airlines have launched the retrofit of the blended winglet on the Boeing 737-500 and the Seattle-based joint company plans to bring a second supplier ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...