While the latest narrowbody offered by the American manufacturer Boeing (the Boeing 737 MAX series) is less than a decade old, the underlying design of the aircraft can be traced back much further, ...

American last week flew its first Boeing 737-800 retrofitted with blended winglets and also began installing winglets on its 757-200 fleet. The winglets were fitted on the 737 by American at its Tulsa ...

UK leisure carrier Jet2 has completed a winglet retrofit on its Boeing 737-800 fleet, a programme that covers 74 aircraft. The airline has spent two years fitting the split-scimitar winglets – ...

Budget carrier Ryanair is to retrofit scimitar winglets across more than 400 Boeing 737-800s in its fleet, in order to trim fuel consumption. The retrofit programme will commence during the winter ...

He entered the pitch-dark hangar and stared into its inky emptiness. Suddenly, two brilliant shafts of blue light cut downward through the murk, focused on a pair of vertical blades taller than a ...

In one of the most famous "Twilight Zone" stories, an airline passenger looks out the window of a commercial plane and is horrified to see a monstrous gremlin on the wing. If you were to do the same ...