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Today's Winglet Wednesday picture is brought to by the colours blue and green! Thanks to Michele, one of our friendly flight attendants, for this week's pic.
Pop quiz: the city that this plane was descending into was our first scheduled Caribbean destination. Care to take a guess?
AirNZ 767 fitted with Aviation Partners winglets that will be fitted to all 8 AirNZ 767s with QANTAS also looking at doing the same to their 767s
I determined the winglets on each side of the saucer shuttle bay doors were offline, they should lap over the edge of the strongback part and into the secondary hull. They were too wide too and needed to be more tapered so I carved, filed, and sanded the cured Apoxy Sculpt then added some more AVES, pulling and blending with fingers and sculpting tools to form an unbroken curve around the spinal plate atop the secondary hull.
My first catch of a Boeing 737 equipped with APB Split Scimitar Winglets.
PAJN / Juneau International Airport
Boeing 737-890
Reg: N557AS
Built: 2006
C/N: 35176
Engines: 2x CFMI CFM56-7B27
Age: 7 years 0 months. Delivery Date: 2009-10-26. Engine Model: CF6-80C2B6. At: Washington Dulles International Airport IAD
Seen with Boeing's new Split Scimitar Winglets.
PAJN / Juneau International Airport
Boeing 737-890
Reg: N558AS
Built: 2006
C/N: 35177
Engines: 2x CFM International CFM56-7B27
A side profile illustration of a white Boeing 757-200 with winglets over a blank background with and without the landing gear deployed
A side profile illustration of a white Boeing 757-200 with winglets over a blank background with and without the landing gear deployed
My first catch of a Boeing 737 equipped with APB Split Scimitar Winglets.
PAJN / Juneau International Airport
Boeing 737-890
Reg: N557AS
Built: 2006
C/N: 35176
Engines: 2x CFMI CFM56-7B27
flying into nyc. those winglets at the end of the wing, that is what they are called, reduce the downward pull at the end of the wing from the Bernoulli Effect, which is what makes the plane fly in the first place. Ironically there is a reverse Bernoulli Effect at the end of the wing that reduces lift. It can be dissipated by one winglet or now two (a two winglet configuration is called an x-wing-let thus making star wars seem more and more like they knew the future. Go figure.)
I'm still amazed that I am in a chair. sitting. IN THE SKY!!! The miracle of flight will never get old to me.
A beautiful evening in Calgary CYYC as I did the walk around for my flight to Edmonton CYEG and on to Halifax CYHZ on the redeye.
Now with 'Blended Winglets'.
A late build Boeing 737 'Classic', this aircraft was delivered to GECAS General Electric Capital Aviation Services and leased to British Airways as G-XBHX in Jun-98. It was returned to GECAS in Dec-02 and stored.
The aircraft was leased to Astraeus Airlines as G-STRE in Mar-03. It was wet-leased to FlyBe (in full FlyBe livery) between Mar-05/Nov-06. The aircraft was returned to GECAS in Jan-07 and was immediately leased to Estonian Airlines as ES-ABK.
It was returned to the lessor as N4620F in Jan-12 and stored at Lasham, UK until it was sold to The Dart Group Plc as G-GDFK and leased to Jet2.com in Mar-12. The aircraft was fitted with blended winglets in Dec-13.
It was withdrawn from service in mid Mar-20 and stored at Leeds/Bradford, UK due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. It was ferried to Murcia (Spain) in early Nov-20 for winter storage, returning to Leeds/Bradford in early Mar-21.
It was again stored at Leeds/Bradford for the summer and ferried to Almeria (Spain) in mid Sep-21 for winter storage. The aircraft returned to Leeds/Bradford in early Feb-22 for maintenance before returning to service on 17-Feb-22. Current, updated 16-May-24.
Winglet of Thai Airways B747-400 while sitting at the gate in Arlanda Airport, Sweden. That was in mid winter and everything including the wing was covered by snow. We were waiting for de-icing, and then departed as TG961 to Bangkok.
Continental Boeing 737 banking and holding over eastern PA. The blended winglets a stark contrast to the farmland below. The Martins Creek powerplant along the Delaware River can again be seen below the wing.
One for the fans of A320 winglets :)
It was time to start the long journey back home - this segment was Kota Kinabalu (BKI) to Miri (MYY) with Air Asia, on one of their shiny new Airbus A320's.
Then Miri to Kuala Lumpur with Malaysia Airlines, long wait in the lovely MAS lounge, then onwards to Amsterdam also with MAS - meant to be with KLM, but that's a long and boring story.
And yes, I could have flown direct from Kota Kinabalu to Kuala Lumpur, but I didn't - another long and boring story :)