One aviation firm with some good news on the environmental front is Aviation Partners, Inc. (API) of Seattle, Wash., which designs blended winglets for a variety of business jets and airliners, including the Hawker 800 Series, the Gulfstream II and the Boeing 737. API says installation of its winglets reduce an aircraft's fuel usage by approximately seven percent.
The company's Web site has a "Millions of gallons of fuel saved" section that claims the blended winglet fleet "is saving fuel at the rate of nearly five gallons per second." As of last week, a real-time calculator on that Web site said use of API winglets has saved more than 645 million gallons of fuel since coming to market.
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That´s really interesting, I wasn´t aware of that!
http://www.aerolink.es/ingles/index.htm
Posted by: mike | November 17, 2007 at 10:35 AM
That´s really interesting, I wasn´t aware of that!
http://www.aerolink.es/ingles/index.htm
Posted by: mike | November 17, 2007 at 10:35 AM