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Sharklet-fitted Airbus A320 successfully undertakes first flight-test (2)

Airbus’ fuel-saving “Sharklet” wing-tip devices – which completed their first test flight on 30 November 2011 – are produced primarily with lightweight carbon fibre composites

30 Nov 2011
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Photo by A. Doumenjou

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