Airbus A350 models undergo constant improvements. New winglets expand the A350's wingspan without increasing the geometric wingspan. Early operators of A350s likely feature airframes with the ...

Airbus followed Boeing's decision several years later ... to install blended winglets on their Boeing 767 aircraft, and the ...

Airbus will introduce larger winglets for the A350 as part of several aerodynamic improvements that will become available for the twinjet later this year. A350 marketing director Francois Obe said ...

Its latest contender is the upcoming Airbus A350-900ULR, a plane you can literally ... carbon fiber in the fuselage and wings and extended winglets. The ULR, which has a maximum take-off weight ...

In 2013, with the A350, Airbus further refined its winglet design, which was no longer a separate appendage but rather a “smooth three-dimensional twisting of the basic wing shape.” ...

Airbus has designed large, fully curved winglets for the A350 and A320neo and “sharklets” for the large planar winglets with curved wingtip-to-winglet junctions for the A320 and A321.

The new winglets will cut fuel use by 4% ... long-range airliners like Airbus's own A350 and Boeing's (BA) 777 instead of the four-engine A380 and Boeing's 747-8. Plus-sized plans Airbus hopes ...