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How do winglets on a plane help the plane?

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Winglets descrease induced drag (drag from the production of lift) created by wing-tip vortices, simply turbulent airflow off the edge of the wing. So they do increase handling characteristics and fuel efficiency because of the increase in lift and decrease in drag.

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