Yes the winglets eliminate tip vortices and therefore, lessen tip drag which does save fuel. The vortex generators are used to reattach the airflow on the wing surface by making the airflow over the wing turbulent from laminar. This could have been a resultant effect from having that huge winglet.

In laymans terms, detached airflow means no lift and that is bad.

 

 

Dude, I'd crap my pants if I opened my window shutter at night time and saw that! Like seriously, a brick would literally come out of my ***, not a rounded brick or anything, I'm talking about the red rectangle bricks that we have come to love, one of those would come out of my ***.

 

About 3 seconds after I bet youd be blazing holes thru the wall/window smoking gun, cherry red barrel style....

 

Any chance you got the tail number of the aircraft ?

 

haha, no surprise, Southwest is the GHETTO-EST domestic carrier around! I only fly Virgin America, all their planes are brand new, and they have the best IFE in the market!

 

Nah... I'm sure they could track it by the flight number.

 

Best in-flight convo. TTIWWOP of said lady.