Your looking at the first pictures of the first Boeing 767 to receive a pair of blended winglets from Aviation Partners Boeing. This American Airlines bird got her winglets pinned on this Thursday just down the street from PointNiner at American's widebody maintenance base at the Kansas City International Airport. In an article from HeraldNet, Aviation Partners Boeing claims 767-300ER operators can expect to see savings of 350,000 gallons of fuel each year with winglets. That's about a 6% savings and is quite the incentive considering how much jet fuel has gone up in price in the last few years. The winglets should also improve the jet's range by 360 nautical miles and increase the payload by 12,000 pounds. This has led the new 767 winglets to be quite popular with operators as 121 sets have already been ordered. Aviation Partners Boeing already has a large following from carriers with their highly successful 737 blended winglet program.
(photos copyright Todd Wade via Airliners.net)
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Saturday, July 12, 2008
First 767 gets blended winglets, already looks sexier
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Who cares, pay your pilots, scum airline management.
I suppose the pilots would get paid better if AA just went ahead and blew the extra million a year per plane on jet fuel?
Actually, adding the winglets improves the efficiency of the wing, thus saving those millions of dollars
Why did they wait for fuel to get out of control before doing this?
they were waiting for you to suggest it. Since you chose not to they went ahead anyway.
Damn...those are huge. Good-bye wake vortex.
I guess they didn't get my memo. I figured that the engineers in that field would know more than me about the matter. I do apologize....
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