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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ever look out the window of a plane or watch as it pulls up to the gate? Have you ever wondered why some planes have pointy bits at the ends of the wings? What you see are "winglets," and they have ...

Boeing calls the odd-looking, upturned wingtips on aircraft “blended winglets.” Airbus calls them “sharklets.” And Southwest Airlines, in ads, simply calls them “little doohickeys.” Whatever the name, ...

Turbulence so bad it induces airsickness is less frequent in the modern era of commercial flight than ever. Higher operational ceilings, larger planes, and better weather reporting have made modern ...

The winglet of an American Airlines plane, not the one pictured, detached during a flight to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Matt Rourke AP An Americans Airline flight had to be diverted on ...