Thursday, February 11, 2016
Winglets?
I was reading over some information I just received about the travel arrangements for a trip I'm taking in a few weeks. As part of the flight to Portugal we will be flying from Amsterdam to Lisbon on a "Boeing 737-800 With Winglets". So now I'm having a lot of fun wondering what winglets are. I could google it and I probably will tomorrow but for now I'm wondering - is this air craft equipped with particularly small wings? Does it have an extra set of little emergency back up wings in case the big ones fall off? I envision little flapping wings, sort of like bird wings tucked under the big wings. Or maybe they will be serving us chicken wings for lunch. We'll be flying 1149 miles on (with?) those winglets so I hope they're up to the task. None of the other planes we'll be on, going or coming back, note that they are equipped with winglets. Should they be?
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Most commercial and private jets have winglets now. They are small vertical "wings" at the tip of the main wings that improve the aerodynamics - providing increased operating efficiency. They do not directly provide any lift since they are vertical. Since they are a normal part of most wings nowadays I wonder why they were mentioned in this particular communication?
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