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'!

Before...

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.

Kelowna Flightcraft B727 showing off its winglets

HB-JHD in ZRH

USAirways 757 with winglets arriving in Aruba on Christmas eve..

The shuttle includes small winglets that remain stowed when in vacuum or docked with the mothership but fold to generate extra lift when landing on atmospheric bodies.

LAX 06-03-2022

Iberia, Airbus A320-214, cn 6328, reg EC-MDK. First Iberia A320 fitted with new winglets.

Note red painting in winglets intruducing a small colour variation in livery.

Jetting on Southwest

Boeing 737-9F2(ER)(Winglets) TC-JYB THY Turkish Airlines at Istanbul Airport. c/n 40974/3693 Built 2011

Southwest 737-800 with the new split scimitar winglets, about to land in San Diego

Air Berlin 737 winglet

Hope folks truly approve of my close-up here... thought I'd get one image of just the winglet. It's rather nice.

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

Somewhat plain and bland compared to TK's red logo encrusted winglets but at least the House Colours are painted on it.

has new recently added Split Scimmitar Winglets by Fokker Services

A close up view of B737-800's winglet captured during our initial descent. This is MH785 flying from Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur.

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Green Bay, WI May 31, 2017.

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China Southern Airlines

Flying out of Panama City - 2016

S 1000 RR Winglets

ab 2019 by AC Schnitzer

A close up of the unusual MD-11 winglet.

United 767-300 with Winglets Cockpit

Distinctive Embraer E-Jet winglet. Onboard a British Airways Embraer E170 from London City Airport to Edinburgh at 30000feet.

Somewhere above Central Java (Indonesia), inside Garuda Indonesian Airways

Dragonair

Airbus Industrie 330-300 Winglet

Lomo LCA

Fujichrome Velvia 50 cross processed

Boeing 737-800-3

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Sgarza ciuffetto in volo frontale

Taking off from Bangkok's Don Muang Airport as FD3223 operated by A320 with the winglets. Thai Air Asia at this point is the only Thai air carrier flying this type of jet. Her winglets look like those of B737-800 when being seen from this angle.

So here's that same photo cropped to 3:2 aspect ratio- just toss out the 1/4 image at either end and here's a 3:2 image where we had 3:4. Not bad looking. I'm going to save this and try a few more...

OLYMPUS EP-2.

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AZ1776 in flight over the Thyrrenian sea

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Airport Weeze (NRN / EDLV), 13.04.2008

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Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-900 at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport

The distinctive MD-11 winglet.. looks good.

I only managed to get one shot right and I got the strobe light refecting on the winglet as a bonus. Stunning view at 35000ft!

With winglets.

Closer look at the simple stripes on the winglets. This is the one 737 that AA painted in the retrojet colors. They also did a 757, but that was later repainted for some reason.