Aileron, the Glossary
An aileron (French for "little wing" or "fin") is a hinged flight control surface usually forming part of the trailing edge of each wing of a fixed-wing aircraft.[1]
Table of Contents
108 relations: Adaptive compliant wing, Adverse yaw, AEA June Bug, AEA White Wing, Aerial Experiment Association, Aerobatics, Aeroelasticity, Air & Space/Smithsonian, Aircraft flight control system, Aircraft principal axes, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Alexander Graham Bell, Alphonse Pénaud, Aviation in the pioneer era, Bibb County School District (Georgia), Biplane, Blériot VIII, Boeing 737 rudder issues, Boeing X-53 Active Aeroelastic Wing, Bristol Aeroplane Company, British Army Aeroplane No 1, Canadair CP-107 Argus, Center of mass, Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith, Charles M. Manly, Charles Renard, Château de Bagatelle, Christmas Bullet, Clément Ader, Couple (mechanics), Curtiss Model D, De Havilland, De Havilland Tiger Moth, Delta wing, Drag (physics), Edson Fessenden Gallaudet, Elevator (aeronautics), Elevon, Etrich Taube, Farman III, Fighter aircraft, Fixed-wing aircraft, Flap (aeronautics), Flaperon, Fleet Model 1, Flight control surfaces, Flight dynamics, Flight International, Flight with disabled controls, Fokker D.VII, ... Expand index (58 more) »
- Aircraft wing components
Adaptive compliant wing
An adaptive compliant wing is a wing which is flexible enough for aspects of its shape to be changed in flight.
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Adverse yaw
Adverse yaw is the natural and undesirable tendency for an aircraft to yaw in the opposite direction of a roll.
AEA June Bug
The June Bug was an American "pioneer era" biplane built by the Aerial Experiment Association (A.E.A) in 1908 and flown by Glenn Hammond Curtiss.
AEA White Wing
The White Wing (or Aerodrome #2) was an early US aircraft designed by Frederick W. Baldwin and built by the Aerial Experiment Association in 1908.
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Aerial Experiment Association
The Aerial Experiment Association (AEA) was a Canadian-American aeronautical research group formed on 30 September 1907, under the leadership of Dr.
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Aerobatics
Aerobatics is the practice of flying maneuvers involving aircraft attitudes that are not used in conventional passenger-carrying flights.
Aeroelasticity
Aeroelasticity is the branch of physics and engineering studying the interactions between the inertial, elastic, and aerodynamic forces occurring while an elastic body is exposed to a fluid flow.
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Air & Space/Smithsonian
Air & Space/Smithsonian is a quarterly magazine published by the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., United States.
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Aircraft flight control system
A conventional fixed-wing aircraft flight control system (AFCS) consists of flight control surfaces, the respective cockpit controls, connecting linkages, and the necessary operating mechanisms to control an aircraft's direction in flight.
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Aircraft principal axes
An aircraft in flight is free to rotate in three dimensions: yaw, nose left or right about an axis running up and down; pitch, nose up or down about an axis running from wing to wing; and roll, rotation about an axis running from nose to tail.
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Alberto Santos-Dumont
Alberto Santos-Dumont, self-stylised as Alberto Santos.
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Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell (born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.
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Alphonse Pénaud
Alphonse Pénaud (31 May 1850 – 22 October 1880), was a 19th-century French pioneer of aviation design and engineering.
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Aviation in the pioneer era
The pioneer era of aviation was the period of aviation history between the first successful powered flight, generally accepted to have been made by the Wright Brothers on 17 December 1903, and the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914.
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Bibb County School District (Georgia)
Bibb County School District is the county government agency which operates the public schools in Bibb County, Georgia, United States.
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Biplane
A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings stacked one above the other.
Blériot VIII
The Blériot VIII was a French pioneer era aeroplane built by Louis Blériot, significant for its adoption of both a configuration and a control system that were to set a standard for decades to come.
Boeing 737 rudder issues
During the 1990s, a series of issues affecting the rudder of Boeing 737 passenger aircraft resulted in multiple incidents.
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Boeing X-53 Active Aeroelastic Wing
The X-53 Active Aeroelastic Wing (AAW) development program is a completed American research project that was undertaken jointly by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Boeing Phantom Works and NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, where the technology was flight tested on a modified McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet.
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Bristol Aeroplane Company
The Bristol Aeroplane Company, originally the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, was both one of the first and one of the most important British aviation companies, designing and manufacturing both airframes and aircraft engines.
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British Army Aeroplane No 1
The British Army Aeroplane No 1 or sometimes Cody 1 was a biplane built by Samuel Franklin Cody in 1907 at the Army Balloon Factory at Farnborough.
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Canadair CP-107 Argus
The Canadair CP-107 Argus (company designation CL-28) is a maritime patrol aircraft designed and manufactured by Canadair for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF).
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Center of mass
In physics, the center of mass of a distribution of mass in space (sometimes referred to as the barycenter or balance point) is the unique point at any given time where the weighted relative position of the distributed mass sums to zero.
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Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith
Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith (22 March 1909 – 3 December 1981) at Information Britain web site was a British polymath historian of aeronautics and aviation.
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Charles M. Manly
Charles Matthews Manly (1876–1927) was an American engineer.
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Charles Renard
Charles Renard (1847–1905) born in Damblain, Vosges, was a French military engineer.
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Château de Bagatelle
The Château de Bagatelle in Paris is a small Neoclassical-style château with several French formal gardens, a rose garden and an orangerie.
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Christmas Bullet
The Christmas Bullet, later known as the Cantilever Aero Bullet (sometimes referred to as the Christmas Strutless Biplane), was an American single-seat cantilever wing biplane.
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Clément Ader
Clément Ader (2 April 1841 – 3 May 1925) was a French inventor and engineer who was born near Toulouse in Muret, Haute-Garonne, and died in Toulouse.
Couple (mechanics)
In mechanics, a couple is a system of forces with a resultant (a.k.a. net or sum) moment of force but no resultant force.
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Curtiss Model D
The 1911 Curtiss Model D (or frequently "Curtiss Pusher") was an early United States pusher aircraft with the engine and propeller behind the pilot's seat.
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De Havilland
The de Havilland Aircraft Company Limited was a British aviation manufacturer established in late 1920 by Geoffrey de Havilland at Stag Lane Aerodrome Edgware on the outskirts of north London.
De Havilland Tiger Moth
The de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth is a 1930s British biplane designed by Geoffrey de Havilland and built by the de Havilland Aircraft Company.
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Delta wing
A delta wing is a wing shaped in the form of a triangle.
Drag (physics)
In fluid dynamics, drag, sometimes referred to as fluid resistance, is a force acting opposite to the relative motion of any object, moving with respect to a surrounding fluid.
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Edson Fessenden Gallaudet
Edson Fessenden Gallaudet (April 21, 1871 – July 1, 1945) was a pioneer in the field of aviation.
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Elevator (aeronautics)
Elevators are flight control surfaces, usually at the rear of an aircraft, which control the aircraft's pitch, and therefore the angle of attack and the lift of the wing. Aileron and Elevator (aeronautics) are aircraft controls.
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Elevon
Elevons or tailerons are aircraft control surfaces that combine the functions of the elevator (used for pitch control) and the aileron (used for roll control), hence the name. Aileron and Elevon are aircraft controls.
Etrich Taube
The Etrich Taube, also known by the names of the various later manufacturers who built versions of the type, such as the Rumpler Taube, was a pre-World War I monoplane aircraft.
Farman III
The Farman III, also known as the Henry Farman 1909 biplane, was an early French aircraft designed and built by Henry Farman''Flight'', 24 April 1909, p. 235.
Fighter aircraft
Fighter aircraft (early on also pursuit aircraft) are military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat.
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Fixed-wing aircraft
A fixed-wing aircraft is a heavier-than-air flying machine, such as an airplane, which is capable of flight using aerodynamic lift.
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Flap (aeronautics)
A flap is a high-lift device used to reduce the stalling speed of an aircraft wing at a given weight. Aileron and flap (aeronautics) are aircraft controls and aircraft wing components.
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Flaperon
A flaperon (a portmanteau of flap and aileron) on an aircraft's wing is a type of control surface that combines the functions of both flaps and ailerons. Aileron and flaperon are aircraft controls.
Fleet Model 1
The Fleet Model 1 (originally the Consolidated Model 14 Husky Junior) and its derivatives were a family of two-seat trainer and sports biplanes produced in the United States and Canada in the 1920s and 1930s.
Flight control surfaces
Aircraft flight control surfaces are aerodynamic devices allowing a pilot to adjust and control the aircraft's flight attitude. Aileron and flight control surfaces are aircraft controls.
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Flight dynamics
Flight dynamics in aviation and spacecraft, is the study of the performance, stability, and control of vehicles flying through the air or in outer space.
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Flight International
Flight International is a monthly magazine focused on aerospace.
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Flight with disabled controls
Throughout a normal flight, a pilot controls an aircraft through the use of flight controls including maintaining straight and level flight, as well as turns, climbing, and descending. Aileron and flight with disabled controls are aircraft controls.
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Fokker D.VII
The Fokker D.VII was a German World War I fighter aircraft designed by Reinhold Platz of the Fokker-Flugzeugwerke.
Fokker Dr.I
The Fokker Dr.I (Dreidecker, "triplane" in German), often known simply as the Fokker Triplane, was a World War I fighter aircraft built by Fokker-Flugzeugwerke.
Fokker Spin
The Fokker Spin was the first airplane built by Dutch aviation pioneer Anthony Fokker.
Fokker V.1
The Fokker V.1 was a small German sesquiplane experimental fighter prototype built in 1916 by the Fokker-Flugzeugwerke.
Frederick Walker Baldwin
Frederick Walker Baldwin (January 2, 1882 – August 7, 1948), also known as Casey Baldwin, paternal grandson of Canadian reform leader Robert Baldwin, was a hydrofoil and aviation pioneer and partner of the famous inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
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Fuselage
The fuselage (from the French fuselé "spindle-shaped") is an aircraft's main body section.
Glenn Curtiss
Glenn Hammond Curtiss (May 21, 1878 – July 23, 1930) was an American aviation and motorcycling pioneer, and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry.
Harrier jump jet
The Harrier, informally referred to as the Harrier jump jet, is a family of jet-powered attack aircraft capable of vertical/short takeoff and landing operations (V/STOL).
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Harry Aubrey Toulmin Sr.
Harry Aubrey Toulmin Sr. (1858 – May 17, 1942) was the American lawyer located in Springfield, Ohio, who wrote the "flying machine" patent application that resulted in the patent granted to Dayton inventors Wilbur and Orville Wright on May 22, 1906.
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Henri Farman
Henri Farman (26 May 1874 – 17 July 1958) was a British-French aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer with his brother Maurice Farman.
Jean Marie Le Bris
Jean Marie Le Bris (25 March 1817, Concarneau – 17 February 1872, Douarnenez) was a French aviator, born in Concarneau, Brittany who built two glider aircraft and performed at least one flight on board of his first machine in late 1856.
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Jet aircraft
A jet aircraft (or simply jet) is an aircraft (nearly always a fixed-wing aircraft) propelled by one or more jet engines.
John Joseph Montgomery
John Joseph Montgomery (February 15, 1858 – October 31, 1911) was an American inventor, physicist, engineer, and professor at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California, who is best known for his invention of controlled heavier-than-air flying machines.
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Junkers D.I
The Junkers D.I (factory designation J 9) was a monoplane fighter aircraft produced in Germany late in World War I, significant for becoming the first all-metal fighter to enter service.
L'Aérophile
L’Aérophile ("The Aerophile") was a French aviation magazine published from 1893 to 1947.
Leslie Frise
Leslie George Frise FRAeS (2 July 1895 – 26 September 1979) was a British aerospace engineer and aircraft designer; he designed the Type 156 Bristol Beaufighter.
Lift (force)
When a fluid flows around an object, the fluid exerts a force on the object.
Lift-induced drag
Lift-induced drag, induced drag, vortex drag, or sometimes drag due to lift, in aerodynamics, is an aerodynamic drag force that occurs whenever a moving object redirects the airflow coming at it.
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Louis Pierre Mouillard
Louis Pierre Mouillard (September 30, 1834 – September 20, 1897) was a French artist and innovator who worked on human mechanical flight in the second half of the 19th century.
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Matthew Piers Watt Boulton
Matthew Piers Watt Boulton (22 September 1820 – 30 June 1894), also published under the pseudonym M. P. W.
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McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is an American tandem two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather, long-range supersonic jet interceptor and fighter-bomber originally developed by McDonnell Aircraft for the United States Navy.
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McGraw Hill Education
McGraw Hill is an American publishing company for educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education.
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Mignet Pou-du-Ciel
The Flying Flea (lit) is a large family of light homebuilt aircraft first flown in 1933.
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Moment (physics)
A moment is a mathematical expression involving the product of a distance and a quantity such as a physical force, magnetic force, electric charge or a velocity.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
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National Air and Space Museum
The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution, is a museum in Washington, D.C., in the United States, dedicated to human flight and space exploration.
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Northrop P-61 Black Widow
The Northrop P-61 Black Widow is a twin-engine United States Army Air Forces fighter aircraft of World War II.
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Octave Chanute
Octave Chanute (February 18, 1832 – November 23, 1910) was a French-American civil engineer and aviation pioneer.
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Parasitic drag
Parasitic drag, also known as profile drag, is a type of aerodynamic drag that acts on any object when the object is moving through a fluid.
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Patent pool
In patent law, a patent pool is a consortium of two or more companies agreeing to cross-license patents relating to a particular technology.
Piper J-3 Cub
The Piper J-3 Cub is an American light aircraft that was built between 1938 and 1947 by Piper Aircraft.
Pusher configuration
In aeronautical and naval engineering, pusher configuration is the term used to describe a drivetrain of air- or watercraft with propulsion device(s) after the engine(s).
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Richard Pearse
Richard William Pearse (3 December 187729 July 1953) was a New Zealand farmer and inventor who performed pioneering aviation experiments.
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Robert Esnault-Pelterie
Robert Albert Charles Esnault-Pelterie (8 November 1881 – 6 December 1957) was a French aircraft designer and spaceflight theorist.
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Rudder
A rudder is a primary control surface used to steer a ship, boat, submarine, hovercraft, airship, or other vehicle that moves through a fluid medium (usually air or water). Aileron and rudder are aircraft controls.
Santos-Dumont 14-bis
The 14-bis (Quatorze-bis; (Quatorze-bis), also known as Oiseau de proie ("bird of prey" in French), was a pioneer era, canard-style biplane designed and built by Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont. In 1906, near Paris, the 14-bis made a manned powered flight that was the first to be publicly witnessed by a crowd and also filmed.
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Science Museum, London
The Science Museum is a major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London.
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Short Admiralty Type 166
The Short Type 166 was a 1910s British two-seat reconnaissance, bombing and torpedo-carrying folder seaplane, designed by Short Brothers.
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Spoiler (aeronautics)
In aeronautics, a spoiler (sometimes called a lift spoiler or lift dumper) is a device which intentionally reduces the lift component of an airfoil in a controlled way. Aileron and spoiler (aeronautics) are aircraft controls and aircraft wing components.
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Spoileron
In aeronautics, spoilerons (also known as spoiler ailerons or roll spoilers) are spoilers that can be used asymmetrically as flight control surfaces to provide roll control. Aileron and spoileron are aircraft controls and aircraft wing components.
Stabilator
A stabilator is a fully movable aircraft horizontal stabilizer. Aileron and stabilator are aircraft controls.
Stall (fluid dynamics)
In fluid dynamics, a stall is a reduction in the lift coefficient generated by a foil as angle of attack increases.
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The Times Literary Supplement
The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) is a weekly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp.
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Trailing edge
The trailing edge of an aerodynamic surface such as a wing is its rear edge, where the airflow separated by the leading edge meets.
Turn and slip indicator
In aviation, the turn and slip indicator (T/S, a.k.a. turn and bank indicator) and the turn coordinator (TC) variant are essentially two aircraft flight instruments in one device.
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United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.
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University of Oklahoma Press
The University of Oklahoma Press (OU Press) is the publishing arm of the University of Oklahoma.
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Weight-shift control
Weight-shift control as a means of aircraft flight control is widely used in hang gliders, powered hang gliders, and ultralight trikes. Aileron and Weight-shift control are aircraft controls.
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William Whitney Christmas
William Whitney Christmas, M.D. (September 1, 1865 – April 14, 1960) was a physician, failed aircraft designer, and supposed con man.
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Wing
A wing is a type of fin that produces lift while moving through air or some other fluid. Aileron and wing are aircraft wing components.
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Wing fence
Wing fences, also known as boundary layer fences and potential fences are fixed aerodynamic devices attached to aircraft wings. Aileron and wing fence are aircraft wing components.
Wing root
The wing root is the part of the wing on a fixed-wing aircraft or winged-spaceship that is closest to the fuselage,Peppler, I.L.: From The Ground Up, page 9. Aileron and wing root are aircraft wing components.
Wing tip
A wing tip (or wingtip) is the part of the wing that is most distant from the fuselage of a fixed-wing aircraft. Aileron and wing tip are aircraft wing components.
Wing warping
Wing warping was an early system for lateral (roll) control of a fixed-wing aircraft or kite.
World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
Wright brothers
The Wright brothers, Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane.
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Wright brothers patent war
The Wright brothers patent war centers on the patent that the Wright brothers received for their method of airplane flight control.
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Wright Flyer
The Wright Flyer (also known as the Kitty Hawk, Flyer I or the 1903 Flyer) made the first sustained flight by a manned heavier-than-air powered and controlled aircraft—an airplane—on December 17, 1903.
Wright Flyer II
The Wright Flyer II was the second powered aircraft built by Wilbur and Orville Wright.
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See also
Aircraft wing components
- Adaptive compliant trailing edge
- Aileron
- Air brake (aeronautics)
- Circulation control wing
- Flap (aeronautics)
- Folding wing
- Gurney flap
- Krueger flap
- Leading-edge cuff
- Leading-edge droop flap
- Leading-edge extension
- Rib (aeronautics)
- Rolleron
- Spar (aeronautics)
- Spoiler (aeronautics)
- Spoileron
- Stall strips
- Variable-camber wing
- Variable-sweep wing
- Vortilon
- Wet wing
- Wing
- Wing fence
- Wing root
- Wing tip
- Wingtip device
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileron
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