(CNN) — 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Getty Images Stephen Brashear/Getty Images The split scimitar winglet on a Boeing 737 MAX 8. Winglets are a now ubiquitous appendage at the end of each wing Jacopo Prisco, CNN What caught your eye the ...