{"id":258122,"date":"2025-07-28T20:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airbus-build-a380-without-winglets\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T20:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:00:17","slug":"why-did-airbus-build-the-a380-without-winglets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=258122","title":{"rendered":"Why Did Airbus Build The A380 Without Winglets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While modern widebody aircraft like <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2007618\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airbus-boeing-winglets-history-differences\/\" >the A330neo, A350, Boeing 787, and Boeing 777X use sleek blended or raked wingtips<\/a><\/span>, the Airbus A380 Superjumbo instead uses fenced wingtips found on the Airbus A320ceo. But why? Why didn&#8217;t Airbus engineers design the massive aircraft with sleek blended wingtips, and instead go for the older design Airbus first used in the 1980s?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The A380 uses fenced winglets, which are not the most optimized to reduce drag because of design compromises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[898,12999,396,1875],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a380","category-airbus-a380-800","category-aircraft","category-wingtips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258128,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258122\/revisions\/258128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}