'The Split Scimitar
Winglet uses existing blended
winglet technology but adds new aerodynamic Scimitar tips, designed in a sideways V shape, further increasing the efficiency of the aircraft,reducing the amount of fuel we burn and cutting our carbon emissions,' Stuart Aggs, acting chief operations officer at Virgin Australia, explained.
Aviation Partners Boeing (APB) product, a retrofit of the existing Blended
Winglets, is the most advanced technology
winglet ever produced, offering unprecedented fuel savings and carbon emissions reductions for the world's most popular commercial aircraft.
According to a spokesperson for the airline, the
winglet of one plane 'came into contact' with the
winglet of another plane on the tarmac of the airport.
My study compares the performance of a symmetrical and a flat-bottomed airfoil to those with a
winglet added to the blade tip.
The newly patented design adapts Blended
Winglets by replacing the aluminum
winglet tip cap with a new aerodynamically shaped
winglet tip cap and by adding a ventral strake.
The wingtip on the SAA plane scraped against the side of the
winglet on the Air Namibia plane (the
winglet is a small fin attached to the end of the wing which helps to lower the fuel consumption by streamlining the air as it flows over the tapered end of the wing).
Dubai: Toyota has announced public sidewalk demonstration trials of the "
Winglet", a personal transport assistance robot developed by the company, in Japan's Tsukuba City, to assess its safety and practicality for moving among pedestrians.
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Toyota City, Japan, July 23, 2013 - (JCN Newswire) - The City of Tsukuba (Tsukuba) in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan and Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) are to begin public sidewalk demonstration trials tomorrow of the "
Winglet", a TMC-developed personal transport assistance robot ridden in a standing position.
Boeing unveiled a new "advanced technology
winglet" design for the 737 MAX yesterday, saying that it will provide up to an additional 1.5% fuel-burn advantage on top of the 10- to 12% improvement already advertised for the re-engined narrow body.
Provider of advanced
Winglet technology Aviation Partners Inc (API) on Monday announced that as of 14:56 PST on 15 January 2012 its Blended
Winglet Technology is estimated to have saved the worlds commercial and business aircraft operators three billion gallons of jet fuel.