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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
The winglet of a soon-to-be-delivered 737-800. Leasing company GECAS will lease the airplane to TSF or Travel Service, the largest private airline company in the Czech Republic.
For more info on the 737 visit: www.newairplane.com/737
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On April 3, 2014, I saw this KLM Boeing 747-400 on final approach to runway 25L at LAX minus the port side winglet. I wonder how often these winglets are lost mid-flight, and whether there are any problems flying in this condition?
McDonnell-Douglas winglet for the DC-10 and MD-11 increases aerodynamic efficiency by reducing lift drag at the wing tip. The winglet lowers fuel consumption by 3 percent, saving an average of a quarter of a million gallons per year on a typical MD-11 aircraft. Developed in 1981.
BOEING 737-800 WINGLETS Lot Polish Airlines SP-LWCB17LO 267Warsaw Chopin (WAW / EPWA) / in Amsterdam
Air New Zealand Boeing 767-319ER (c/n 26971 / 663) ZK-NCK showing off its winglets as it blasts out of RWY16 yesterday evening as NZ126 bound for Auckland
Blended winglet on the left wing of N582HA, a Boeing 767-33A(ER), MSN 28139, operated by Hawaiian Airlines.
Frontier
(2018) Airbus A320-251N
PHL - July 14, 2019
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Copyright 2019
Paul Kanagie
I believe I can fly
I believe I can touch the sky
I think about it every night and day
Spread my wings and fly away
I believe I can soar
I see me running through that open door
I believe I can fly, I believe I can fly
I believe I can fly...
(Extract from "I Believe I Can Fly" by R. Kelly, 1996)
(Reached Explore #291)
This "NG" 737 features the Aviation Partners Boeing (APB) split-scimitar winglets. The split-scimitar design appears to derive from APB's retrofit winglet design for Classic and NG 737s, with a modified upper tip and the second, downward pointing, airfoil.
Boeing's own 737 MAX has a straight-edged split winglet design with both the upward and downward airfoils closer to horizontal. Instead of APB's nearly vertical upper fin. Boeing's 737 solution is more like the 747-400, or Embraer 175's, slanted wingtip
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See www.b737.org.uk/winglets.htm#MiniWinglets and other sources.
Alaska Airlines
737-890 N586AS
ln nbr 2393 del. SEPT/2007
now with split scimitar winglets / departing SFO
Standard Winglets.
This aircraft was delivered to ORIX Aviation and leased to TUIfly Germany as D-ATUI with standard winglets in Feb-11. The standard winglets were replaced with 'Split Scimitar' winglets in May-14. It was repainted in the 'Robinson Club' logojet livery in Dec-15. TUIfly became TUI Airlines Germany in Oct-17. The aircraft was transferred to TUI Airways UK as G.-.T.U.K.N. in Feb-21. It was ferried to Bristol, UK in Mar-21 for storage due to the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic. Stored, updated 30-Apr-21.
Note: The registration D-ATUI has been used twice previously on Boeing 737-800's. By Hapag-Lloyd on c/n 30287/1308 between Apr-03/Oct-05 and by TUIfly on c/n 34690/2184 between Feb-07/Apr-08
The winglet. A design first used by the Wright Brothers in 1905 called 'blinkers', and later patented by William E. Somerville in 1910 and then called 'side curtains'!
Volaris registry XA-VLN, an Airbus A320-233, offloads passengers at a "subsidiary gate" of Tijuana International Airport's (TIJ) (AKA: Aeropuerto Abelardo L Rodriguez...) Pier A. Also seen is an Interjet A320-family jet at the Pier B concourse. This style winglet is fairly new... Taken by a Nikon D610 at ISO 400 with a Nikkor 35mm ƒ 2 AF-D lens.
China Southern Airlines B-6136 Airbus A380-800 B-6136 and B-5640 Boeing 737-800 B-5640 Skyteam livery meet on RWY 36R at PEK