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Winglets on Southwest aircraft
Does Southwest add winglets to existing aircraft through some kind of
retrofit, or do the aircraft have to be ordered from the factory with winglets?? Sure seems like lately I'm seeing a lot more of their aircraft with the winglets lately. Matt |
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Winglets on Southwest aircraft
"Ender" wrote in message newsaqbc.2578$2H4.332@clgrps12... Matt wrote: Does Southwest add winglets to existing aircraft through some kind of retrofit, or do the aircraft have to be ordered from the factory with winglets?? Sure seems like lately I'm seeing a lot more of their aircraft with the winglets lately. Matt Retrofit. Westjet here in Canada is doing it too. I'm not sure if the 37's are available with the winglets or not from Boeing. I'd think so since the BBJ has em BUT who knows the Southwest contract might be for another company to put the kits on. ATA flys -800's with winglets "stock," as do many others (Hapag Lloyd was the launch for the -800 or was that the 757-300? No that was Condor...) They've always been an option on the NG. There's now an outfit (name escapes me) that will retrofit winglets on the classic 73's J |
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Winglets on Southwest aircraft
In article oaqbc.2578$2H4.332@clgrps12, Ender
wrote: Matt wrote: Does Southwest add winglets to existing aircraft through some kind of retrofit, or do the aircraft have to be ordered from the factory with winglets?? Sure seems like lately I'm seeing a lot more of their aircraft with the winglets lately. Matt Retrofit. Westjet here in Canada is doing it too. I'm not sure if the 37's are available with the winglets or not from Boeing. I'd think so since the BBJ has em BUT who knows the Southwest contract might be for another company to put the kits on. The winglets were designed and are produced by an outfit called Aviation Partners which originally developed them for corporate jets. Somehow, they got Boeing to try them on the BBJ where it was found that less noise, better fuel consumption, greater payload, greater range and/or better climb rate was experienced. Qantas's 737NG fleet (diverted A order) came equipped ex-factory with them. |
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