Aircraft
Wingtip Business Looking Up At Aviation Partners

If you walk around the static display here at MEBA 2012, a common theme emerges: there are hardly any airplanes on show that do not have upturned wingtip extensions.

Aviation Partners (U.S. Pavilion, Stand 575), a Seattle-based company established in 1991, pioneered the blended winglet design, in which the winglet forms a graceful curve up from the wing rather than turning up at a sharp angle.

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