wingtip device

A new type of wingtip device is to be introduced on the new 737 versions.

All 85 737s will be equipped with blended Wingtip device, which significantly improve fuel efficiency.

Wingtip devices are usually intended to improve the efficiency of fixed-wing aircraft.

Newer designs are favoring increased span, other wingtip devices or a combination of both, whenever possible.

Wingtip devices can also improve aircraft handling characteristics and enhance safety for following aircraft.

There are wingtip devices on the Airbus A380.

On the Boeing 737 MAX, a new type of wingtip device has been introduced.

Many aircraft are now made with wingtip devices to reduce such turbulence (which also improves both the lift-to-drag ratio and fuel economy).

There has been research into actuating wingtip devices, including a filed patent application, though no aircraft currently uses this feature as described.

In the 1970s Whitcomb came up with winglets, wingtip devices that reduce yet another type of drag and further improve aerodynamic efficiency.

Airbus has showcased wingtip devices (sharklets or winglets) that can achieve 3.5 percent reduction in fuel consumption.

Wingtip fences are the preferred wingtip device of Airbus, employed on all their airliners except for the A330 and A340 families.

The winglets were originally retrofit to production sailplanes, but now most high-performance gliders are equipped from the factory with winglets, or some other wingtip device.

NASA's own most notable application of wingtip devices is on the Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.

Wingtip devices are also used on rotating propeller, helicopter rotor, and wind turbine blades to reduce drag, reduce diameter, reduce noise and/or improve efficiency.

The P-8 is unique in that it has Boeing 767-style Wingtip device, instead of the Wingtip device available on other 737NG variants.

There are several types of wingtip devices, and although they function in different manners, the intended effect is always to reduce the aircraft's drag by partial recovery of the tip vortex energy.

Winglets served double duty on Burt Rutan's canard pusher configuration VariEze and Long-EZ, acting as both a wingtip device and a vertical stabilizer.

In September 2010, Airbus confirmed that from 2013 the Airbus A318 would become available with Sharklets, wingtip devices which reduce lift-induced drag and improve efficiency through reduced fuel consumption.

Wingtip devices increase the lift generated at the wingtip (by smoothing the airflow across the upper wing near the tip) and reduce the lift-induced drag caused by wingtip vortices, improving lift-to-drag ratio.

A closed wing can be thought of as the maximum expression of a wingtip device, which has the aim of eliminating the influence of the wingtip vortices which occur at the tips of conventional wings.

Aeronautics research, a NASA hallmark since the agency's founding, has been credited with advances like new airplane wing designs, turbulence detectors, more fuel efficient engines and research on wingtip devices that reduce drag and improve fuel consumption.

Cessna recently announced they were partnering with Winglet Technology, LLC of Wichita, Kansas, to test a new wingtip device called Elliptical Winglets, which are designed to increase range and increase payload on hot and high departures.

It features a downward wingtip device which Flightglobal.com noted vaguely resembles the Boeing Bird of Prey prototype, but with a more faceted design similar to the 1970s-era Lockheed Have Blue that was developed into the now retired F-117 Nighthawk.