and this is an excellent place to point out that indeed winglets are a lot of style, notice the P-8 has NO winglets, but a very snarky less draggy wing tip, giving the wing some extra length, what a winglet can do is give an aircraft a little more effective span, and provide an end plate effect, to cage or corral the wing tip vortices, and to provide a visual cue in airport operations so that in ground ops, you know where that wing tip is in reference to other aircraft and buildings etc---there have been an insane number of aircraft collisions on the ground in the last 10 to 15 years.
I would also point out that NO fighter aircraft have winglets, so in all honesty I question the aerodynamic benefit touted for the winglet, but I would point out that if domestic and foreign commercial aircraft had the more optimal wing-tip of the P-8, there would be even more collisions and incursions into others territory.
One more thing, the original 737 was a stumpy, homely little bugger, that P-8 is pure gorgeous, I would love to have one on my flight sim, I guarantee that it would do a very nice roll if you kept your energy and airspeed up, I'm still a Boeing guy, I do NOT like the FCS on the Airbus, beautiful airplanes, but they lack exactly what it is the P-8 is oozing, I would add that I hope it does have a sidestick controller, but prolly not, that is one thing I like about the airbus.
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