The handful of final Boeing 737-600s remaining in use are still serving on the flightline carrying fliers around the world.

Embraer refreshed its popular E-Jet series as the E2, while Bombardier created the clean-sheet CSeries, now the Airbus A220. Airbus recently debuted the A321XLR late last year, a long-range derivative ...

Don't worry — that's perfectly normal. That tip is called a winglet, and commercial airlines have been incorporating them into the design of their smaller and medium-sized planes for the past ...

Several airliners use them. The Airbus A319 and A320 have very small upper and lower winglets. The longer-range twin-engine A330 and four-engine A340 have conventional winglets, as do Boeing 747-400s.

Similarly, the company provides major wing components for the Airbus A320neo family, the center wing box and keel beam for the A350, precision-made parts for the A320neo and A330 for which it also ...

Canted winglets are short, upward-sloping wedges; they can be found on Airbus A330 and A340 aircraft and on the Boeing 747-400. Canted winglets on a Lufthansa A340-600 (Photo by JOKER/Hady ...

Early winglet designs were angular, and could often be seen on older aircraft such as the Boeing 747-400 and all variants of the Airbus A340. They are still present today on the Airbus A330-200 and ...

Similarly, the company provides major wing components for the Airbus A320neo family, the center wing box and keel beam for the A350, precision-made parts for the A320neo and A330 for which it also ...

Meanwhile, Airbus has developed large, fully curved winglets for the A350 and A330neo, says Simon Galpin, head of aerodynamics at the OEM. For the A220, A330 and A340, the design incorporates ...

Our colleagues over at Jetstar operate similar-sized but Airbus manufactured aircraft called A320s whose winglets are called sharklets,” the airline said. “On our A330 and A380 aircraft the ...