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26th October 2005 | 01:01

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Carnage Matey!

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From: UK

As an aerodynamics engineer once said to me at a now defunct US aircraft manufacturer:

"We could have had a longer wing, but the winglets make it look more 'space age' so we went for that"

Perhaps aesthetics is the reason?