Examples of winglet in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web An American Airlines regional flight hit turbulence over Alabama Tuesday night and lost a piece of its right wing known as the winglet. — al, 4 May 2022 The jet will be powered by the same Rolls-Royce Pearl 700 turbofan engines as the G700, while sharing that aircraft’s wing, tail and winglet. — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 5 Oct. 2021 The same outside-hinge approach was used for the rear hatch, to prevent any loss of headroom in the back, and to give designers and excuse to use cool little winglet roof covers. — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 17 July 2021 Even so, our world of winglets doesn’t get us far enough. — Christie Aschwanden, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020 The design defects focused on the aircraft’s angle-of-attack sensors, two small winglets on each side of the plane below the cockpit windows. — USA Today, 6 Feb. 2020 That also explains the small winglets over the tops of the front wheels and even the spinning fairings that cover the wheels themselves. — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 4 Nov. 2019 The lights sweep toward the fenders like winglets, while the whale-like grille below could swallow an ocean of krill. — Henry Payne, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2019 The direction of thrust can be changed rapidly by altering the angle of the winglets. — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2019 See More

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