Winning Winglets
Airbus is seeing better-than-expected fuel-burn savings during initial flight trials of its A320 winglet upgrade, called Sharklets. The company was hoping for a fuel-burn improvement of up to 3.5% on long flights, but early indications are the savings may exceed estimates, says Fernando Alonso...
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