Two Cessna Citation light business jets engaged in a "flyoff" from Portland, Maine to Palm Beach, Florida on January 26 to demonstrate the advantages of Tamarack Aerospace active winglets. Earlier ...

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 ...

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 same ...

Both the Airbus A350 and the Airbus A330neo feature variations on the blended and curved wingtip. This grants both jets efficiency improvements, reducing environmental costs and increasing revenues ...

Premier Jet has ordered three shipsets of the Tamarack Aerospace active winglet to add to a retrofit kit in development for the Cessna 525 CitationJet. Idaho-based Tamarack unveiled its active winglet ...

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 ...

When Boeing’s new 777X taxied out for takeoff for its first flight earlier this year, it shared the look of most modern airliners. Its long fuselage was flanked by two massive engines under its long ...

The Blended Winglet Technology will have saved the world’s airlines and private jet operators 2 billion gallons of jet fuel, or US$4 billion+ as of March 5, 2010, 1905 hours PST. The Blended Winglet ...

API has certified its split scimitar winglet on all models of the Boeing 737NG, including the Boeing Business Jet variant. Credit: Aviation Partners, Inc. Anyone who occupies a window seat with a ...

In theory, the most efficient wing is infinitely long, which is obviously not possible. The practical application of this truism is that the higher a wing’s aspect ratio (span squared/area), the more ...