Airbus followed Boeing's decision several years later, making some wonder if the European aircraft manufacturer copied its ...

Until now Airbus has used a smaller boomerang-shaped device called a wingtip fence on the A320 to combat the whirling currents or vortices that build up at the wingtip, causing drag. Boeing says ...

The first A320 fitted with Sharklets will be delivered from the end of 2012. Launched for development in October 2009, the wingtip devices, which are around 2.5m tall, will replace the current wingtip ...

Airbus A320 chief engineer Wolfgang Engler says ... the A320neo - will be "weight neutral", he says. "If you take the wingtip fence [rather than the sharklet], you won't be able to tell the ...

and ground contact with the wing-tip could not be prevented," says BFU's final report into the incident, in which the A320's wing fence suffered damage. The crew executed a go-around and landed ...

Their Airbus A320 had just arrived from Atlanta at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida Monday night when a wingtip hit the tail of another plane. “After landing and while ...