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Boeing 737-8K5 winglets c/n 27990246 Hapagfly

Hannover-Langenhagen (D) 2006-08-05

© Berend de Vries

Copa Airlines featuring split scimitar winglets. MROC / SJO.

Boeing 737-8K2 PH-HXB

HV5666 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Amsterdam

Somewhere over the Atlantic

13-05-2023

 

T202305-0099

Aeroporto internacional de Foz do Iguaçu -PR

Condor Flugdienst Boeing 757-330 D-ABOK is being towed towards the parking area in the southern part of the airport by a Kalmar TBL 190 aircraft tractor.

 

c/n 29020 (l/n 918) has had its first flight on 25.02.00 with the test registration N1795B and was delivered to Condor on 25.03.00. It was transferred to Thomas Cook Airlines in July 2002. Since 28.05.04 the airline is named Condor again.

 

This jet was recently equipped with blended winglets.

 

Map it: Street | Satellite | Hybrid | Nautical | Google Earth

Easier to add these shapes in after the base forming is complete than try to carve the whole thing down

TF-FIN (Icelandair B757)

A 5x zoom shot groups a series of winglets and tails on United Airlines jets, plus an ANA-operated Boeing 777-300ER.

Inflight from Los Angeles to Fort Lauderdale

OK-TVV is fitted with Scimitar winglets - Shannon 4/6/15.

Winglet of Middle East Airlines - MEA Airbus A330-200

These are the winglets of our new Duo Discus. They are just gorgeous aren't they?

 

Available at 500px, number 89152569!

So here's that same photo cropped again, still to 3:2 aspect ratio, but 2/3 the linear dimensions. So 1K X 667 pixels..1/20th the size of the original photo....

 

Still not bad looking.

 

Maybe this EP-2 business will pay off... This picture is either the 85mm (170 eq) or the 180mm (360 eq). I'm guessing the later. Key facts are bright sun, 1/800 second exposure and 640 ISO. Probably was't wide open- F4? 5.6? 8? I'll have to do a study... I've made less attractive photos using film in the OM-1.

 

OLYMPUS EP-2.

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Winglet equipped Boeing 727-212 parked on 600 stands at Heathrow.

Underneath the wing are the snow-covered Swiss Alps

It's amazing what winglets can do to a commercial aircraft, the A320 which is more substance over style looks a lot better with winglets which give them some sort of elegance.

In the past, Airbus Industrie have experimented with winglet designs on the A320 family... The wingtip fences that have been used on the A320 since the 1990's which compared to winglets found on the competing Boeing 737 were well known for producing induced drag and vortices on take-off and landing. To counteract this, in 2006, Airbus developed two different winglet designs. One was done by Airbus as a basic improvement on the wingtip fence design whilst the second had a more blended design done by Winglet Technology.

Although the testing proved successful, Airbus announced initially they would not offer the new designs to customers until 2008 when Airbus worked with Aviation Partners on an existing winglet design and by 2009, Airbus announced that the 'Sharklets' would be fitted to customers after 2012 with Air New Zealand the first to benefit... This would be part of modifications to the current generation A320 until the new revised versions arrive by 2017.

G-ZBAB is the second A320 with Monarch to be delivered with Sharklets, delivered in April 2013. Currently, there are three A320 series aircraft that have Sharklets, with two A321's on order that will most likely see the winglets applied.

Airbus A320-214(WL) G-ZBAB arrives at East Midlands (EMA) on ZB7449 from Málaga (AGP).

A great display of Northern Lights over Northern Saskatchewan on the way to Halifax CYHZ from Edmonton CYEG.

 

Sometimes pulling these all nighters have their advantages.

 

I thought the winglet added a different dimension.

 

Image Copyright Dave & Diane Kingston dba Aviator Photography 2014

Last minute "Winglet Wednesday" posting! I just love showing an airplane in flight... from an airplane. For more photos from my 2019-03-29 PAE-SFO flight go here: flic.kr/s/aHskU2KNdq

 

Also for those who want to see my aerials over the years go here: flic.kr/s/aHsk5pKCJD

 

PHOTO CREDIT: Joe A. Kunzler Photo, AvgeekJoe Productions, growlernoise-AT-gmail-DOT-com

BOEING 737-800 WINGLETS KLM PH-BCKD24KL 946 Dublin (DUB / EIDW) / in Amsterdam

A blended winglet on a Southwest Boeing 737-700 series adds a little color to an otherwise gloomy day.

 

The concept and testing of these large wingtip extensions had been around since the mid-1980's but since their certification on the 737 Next Generation platform in 2001, they have become widespread in their use with rising fuel costs. Their purpose is to reduce the amount of induced drag, i.e., the type of drag caused by the lift of the wing itself. Airlines typically save about 3 percent in fuel with these which quickly adds up in a large fleet.

UPS

Boeing 767-34AF

 

PHL - July 16-19, 2013

Frontier

(2017) Airbus A321-211

PHL - October 17-20, 2017

Winglet of the A350 with sensors on it

F-WXWB : MSN001

Aufgenommen auf dem Vorfeld des Flughafens Düsseldorf International

#WINGLETWEDNESDAY

San Francisco

Qantas flight Adelaide to Melbourne

One of the Dunham youngsters stretching his wings this morning.

Hey, some things just deserve to be explored as art, eh? Certainly when these blended winglets are so artistic!

 

Make sure to check out the set!

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From the plaque below the blended winglet exhibit:

 

The Future Is On The Wing

 

This Blended Winglet was test flown on a Boeing 747-200 in 2000 to prove the viability of Blended Winglets for big transport aircraft.

 

Blended Winglets are gracefully curved wingtip extensions that measurably enhances the aerodynamic efficiencies, flight characteristics and environmental benefits of corporate and commercial aircraft.

 

Aviation Partners of Seattle introduced the patented Blended Winglets in 1991. They are now flying on airliners and corporate jets worldwide saving fuel and protecting the environment.

 

The Museum of Flight is grateful to Aviation Partners, Inc. and Aviation Partners Boeing for their enormous contribution to the world of flight and aerospace.

United Airlines 737-800 (N76505) with Scimitar Winglets on final approach to LAX Runway 24R. (08/16/14)

Stephen M. Keller, 2013

 

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© All rights reserved 2014

 

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Toronto Pearson International Airport CYYZ

 

C-GOWG

Sunwing Airlines

Boeing 737-86J(WL)

cn 37757 / ln 3377

Split Scimitar Winglet

 

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I make out the registration as N644AS but I may be wrong. N644AS is an Alaska 737-700, N644AS == 2003 Boeing 737-790 C/N 30795. Plausible!

 

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Autosave-File vom d-lab2/3 der AgfaPhoto GmbH

 

Crop and straighten *yay!*

OK-TVV - Boeing 737-86N Smartwings

Waiting for a flight from Schiphol last Wedneday evening, and the nice weather tempted me up to the observation platform.

 

My love of planes and "things in a row" was just too much for me ;)

 

Now back home, and currently trying to recover a 2GB card full of photos from the weekend that I deleted by mistake - a r s e.

 

Hoping that SanDisk "RescuePRO" lives up to its name ...

 

[Update - Tuesday evening]

 

The clever software did it's stuff - nearly all of the photos recovered from the card - phew !

Late on a Winglet Wednesday, almost a Throwback Thursday so here's a photo from an 18 Feb 2017 flight in the clouds.

 

PHOTO CREDIT: Joe A. Kunzler Photo, AvgeekJoe Productions, growlernoise-AT-gmail-DOT-com

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