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Airbus undertakes blended-winglet evaluation on A-320

Toulouse, France - The technology is developped by Aviation Partners Inc.

"Airbus has started flight-testing of Blended Winglet devices on an Airbus A-320. The Blended Winglet technology, developed by Aviation Partners Inc. (API), has been specially adapted for these tests on the A-320 Family. The objective of these tests and the subsequent evaluation is to identify both the performance and economic benefits that these devices could offer for Airbus aircraft. In conjunction...

fra/pec - 1097911
Rome, Italy, 12/18/2008 17:59
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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