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Socal From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 473 posts, RR: 0
Posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 1639 times:

Anyone else have pix of 757's with winglets beside Continental Airlines....if so can you link them pls......

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SATL382G From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 1, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 1634 times:

Is there another airline that's done this mod? I didn't think so.....

Raybolt From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 255 posts, RR: 1
Reply 2, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 1585 times:

I spoke w/ a CO B757 Cap last week about the winglets, and he said things aren't going too well. He said that they will prob lose Cat III and autoland ability due to a large amount of float on flare. Hopefully things will be worked out soon, I can't wait to see these in action.

Dan

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Newark777 From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 9348 posts, RR: 33
Reply 3, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 1451 times:

There is only one 757 with winglets so far, and it is the CO plane we have seen, being used as the test bed for the new winglets. If all goes well, we will hopefully see them installed on more airlines. But for now, they are still in testing.

Harry

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TWAMD-80 From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 1006 posts, RR: 4
Reply 4, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 4 days ago) and read 1389 times:

I just saw the pics of the 757 with winglets and I think they look pretty sharp on this plane.

TW

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Flyf15 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 5, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 1340 times:

I saw this plane in person the other day. Really sleek looking, definately liked it. Suprisingly, the entire look of the plane seems to be changed by them.

CaptOveur From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 6, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 1312 times:

Does Continental do an exceptional amount of test work or is it just me?

I remember seeing a magazine cover many moons ago of a CO DC-10 with winglets being tested.

I guess my question in all of this is: Does CO have a corporate culture of always trying to save money no matter what the cost? Or do they just have a lot of extra planes lying around where they can take them out of service for months at a time for development?

Wouldn't it have been more cost effective for everyone involved if Boeing went and pulled a 757 out of the desert to do all the testing and certification before they started pulling planes out of service.. Or did Boeing cut CO one sweet deal on the winglets in exchange for use of an airplane?

AeroWeanie From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 1601 posts, RR: 52
Reply 7, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 1311 times:

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The Continental DC-10 with winglets was on lease to NASA for the testing. Similarly, the Continental 757 with winglets is being tested by Aviation Partners Boeing, not Continental.

Boeing is a member of the APB joint venture with API. This is a business arrangement. Boeing has little to do with the engineering or testing of the winglets - its an APB effort.