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A short rest for the ramp workers while they were waiting for more luggage and cargo to arrive to be loaded on this Boeing 767.
This July day was a hot one in the city so to find shadow was important.
Wingtip devices, sometimes called Winglets, are intended to improve the efficiency of fixed-wing aircraft.
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. Wingtip devices can also improve aircraft handling characteristics and enhance safety for following aircraft. Such devices increase the effective aspect ratio of a wing without materially increasing the wingspan. An extension of span would lower lift-induced drag, but would increase parasitic drag and would require boosting the strength and weight of the wing. At some point, there is no net benefit from further increased span. There may also be operational considerations that limit the allowable wingspan (e.g., available width at airport gates).
Large winglets such as those seen on the Boeing 737 (as seen here) are blended winglets which are most useful during short-distance flights, where increased climb performance offsets increased drag.
So here's that same photo cropped again, still to 3:2 aspect ratio, but half the linear dimensions, again, So 1.5K X 1K, 1.5MP.
Not bad looking.
OLYMPUS EP-2.
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SOUTHWEST, BOEING 737 (737-700), N715SW, SeaWorld "Shamu" colors, at EWR, New Jersey, USA. August, 2013. Copyright Tom Turner.
D-ATUD, TUIfly, Boeing 737-8K5(WL) - cn 34685."HaribAIR" [Split Scimitar winglet)
@ [HER/LGIR] 25th May 2014.
16-11-2013 - Jetflite, Bombardier CL-600 Challenger 605. A close up on the inner side of the winglet.
Info:
Aircraft was built in 2010 and carried the test reg. C-GFJT. It was delivered to Jetflite in June 2011.
C/n - 5849
On our early Am departure from YYC I noticed this Rainbow effect around the shadow of our 737-800 as we passed through the clouds Very Cool
As seen from my window seat, the winglet of our Southwest Airlines flight from Kansas City making its final approach toward Chicago Midway Airport. In the distance is the skyline of Chicago.
Monday morning 30 November 2009.
Alaska's 737-800 N556AS with the new split scimitar winglets mounted. On final at Lindbergh Field, San Diego.
I'd say someone believes in the power of... mmmm, friendship? Faeries? that's quite a twinkle on the port wingtip.
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Thanks to Danela for sharing this Winglet Wednesday pic with us. She took it on her recent flight to Calgary. What do you think?
KORF (Norfolk International Airport) - 03 OCT 2025
"Delta 2329" departing RWY 5 en route to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (KATL).
Production Site: Renton (RNT)
First Flight: 21 FEB 2013
Intended for Lion Air as PK-LKU, but not taken up
Delivery to Malindo Air: 13 MAR 2013 as 9M-LNF
Hex Code: 7502C2
Configuration: C12Y168
Engines: 2x CFMI CFM56-7B26E
"7500th 737" sticker applied in MAR 2013
Withdrawn from use 06 MAR 2021
Stored at San Bernardino (SBD) 30 SEP 2021 - 14 MAY 2023
To Castlelake: O4 OCT 2021 as N940DJ
Hex Code: AD0D7C
Engines: 2x CFMI CFM56-7B26E
To Delta Air Lines: 16 JUN 2022 as N940DJ
Hex Code: AD0D7C
Fleet Number: 3940
Configuration: C12Y168
Engines: 2x CFMI CFM56-7B26E
Re-registered to Delta Air Lines: 14 MAY 2023 as N943DZ
Hex Code: AD18B0
Fleet Number: 3943
Configuration: C12Y168
Engines: 2x CFMI CFM56-7B26E
Stored at SAL 14 MAY - 05 AUG 2023
Aviation Partners Boeing (APB) split scimitar winglets installed
Ferried SAL-ATL on 05 AUG 2023 on delivery
Entered into service on 16 AUG 2023
Winglet and tail fin of Korean Air Cargo Boeing 747-4B5 (F) HL7403 which is on short final for runway 25L.
c/n 26408 has had its first flight on 20.06.98 with the test registration N60659 and was delivered to Korean Air on 30.12.98.
This is flight KE505 from Seoul (ICN).
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Just departed Sao Paulo, Brazil and you can see the airport on the side.
© Tommy Mogren - Viking Aviation Photo
G-RUKH Ryanair UK B737-800 Scimitar Winglet Belfast International Airport
Vanquish Photography Photo of the Year 2024 Number 23
Boeing 737-8U3 winglets c/n 30148/3353 Garuda Indonesia
Denpasar Ngurah Rai Airport (PK) 2011-04-27
© Berend de Vries
Sunwing Boeing 737-800 C-FTJH basks in the evening Dublin sunshine, about to operate to the sunnier climes of Ibiza, those lucky people. C-FTJH recently transferred over from Canada to Ireland for the summer 2014 season, working various flights out of Ireland to " hotspots " around Europe. Unknown to those lucky travellers, they will have reduced their carbon footprints on those sandy beaches in Ibiza even further, as this aircraft is fitted with the latest split Scimitar winglets, turning both the traditional upwards & now downwards as well.