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Wing configuration, the Glossary

The wing configuration of a fixed-wing aircraft (including both gliders and powered aeroplanes) is its arrangement of lifting and related surfaces.^[1]

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Wing configurations

Adaptive compliant wing

An adaptive compliant wing is a wing which is flexible enough for aspects of its shape to be changed in flight. Wing configuration and adaptive compliant wing are aircraft wing design.

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Aerodynamics

Aerodynamics (ἀήρ aero (air) + δυναμική (dynamics)) is the study of the motion of air, particularly when affected by a solid object, such as an airplane wing.

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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. Wing configuration and Aeroelasticity are aircraft wing design.

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Aeronautics

Aeronautics is the science or art involved with the study, design, and manufacturing of air flight-capable machines, and the techniques of operating aircraft and rockets within the atmosphere.

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Aircraft design process

The aircraft design process is a loosely defined method used to balance many competing and demanding requirements to produce an aircraft that is strong, lightweight, economical and can carry an adequate payload while being sufficiently reliable to safely fly for the design life of the aircraft.

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Aircraft fairing

An aircraft fairing is a structure whose primary function is to produce a smooth outline and reduce drag.

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Airfoil

An airfoil (American English) or aerofoil (British English) is a streamlined body that is capable of generating significantly more lift than drag. Wing configuration and airfoil are aircraft wing design.

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Airplane

An airplane (North American English) or aeroplane (Commonwealth English), informally plane, is a fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine, propeller, or rocket engine. Wing configuration and airplane are aircraft configurations.

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Akaflieg Stuttgart fs29

The Akaflieg Stuttgart fs29 TF Stadt Stuttgart is a glider designed and built in Germany from 1972.

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Alsomitra macrocarpa

Alsomitra macrocarpa, commonly known as Javan cucumber, is a species of gourd-bearing liana belonging to the pumpkin family Cucurbitaceae.

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Ansaldo SVA

The Ansaldo SVA (named for Savoia-Verduzio-Ansaldo) was a family of Italian reconnaissance biplane aircraft of World War I and the decade after.

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Anti-shock body

Anti-shock body is the name given by Richard T. Whitcomb to a pod positioned on the upper surface of a wing. Wing configuration and Anti-shock body are aircraft wing design.

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Armstrong Whitworth F.K.10

The Armstrong Whitworth F.K.10 was a British two-seat quadruplane (i.e., four wing) fighter aircraft built by Armstrong Whitworth during the First World War.

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Aspect ratio

The aspect ratio of a geometric shape is the ratio of its sizes in different dimensions.

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Aspect ratio (aeronautics)

In aeronautics, the aspect ratio of a wing is the ratio of its span to its mean chord. Wing configuration and aspect ratio (aeronautics) are aircraft wing design and wing configurations.

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Asymmetrical aircraft

Asymmetrical aircraft have left- and right-hand sides which are not exact mirror images of each other. Wing configuration and Asymmetrical aircraft are aircraft configurations and wing configurations.

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Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar

The Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar was a VTOL aircraft developed by Avro Canada as part of a secret U.S. military project carried out in the early years of the Cold War.

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Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing

The Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing is an American biplane with an atypical negative wing stagger (the lower wing is farther forward than the upper wing).

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Beechcraft Starship

The Beechcraft Starship is a twin-turboprop six- to eight-passenger pressurized business aircraft produced by Beech Aircraft Corporation.

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Bell X-5

The Bell X-5 was the first aircraft capable of changing the sweep of its wings in flight.

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Biplane

A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings stacked one above the other. Wing configuration and biplane are aircraft wing design and wing configurations.

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Blériot III

The Blériot III was an early French aeroplane built by pioneer aviators Louis Blériot and Gabriel Voisin.

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Blériot VII

The Blériot VII was an early French aeroplane built by Louis Blériot.

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Blended wing body

A blended wing body (BWB), also known as blended body, hybrid wing body (HWB) or a lifting aerofoil fuselage, is a fixed-wing aircraft having no clear dividing line between the wings and the main body of the craft. Wing configuration and blended wing body are aircraft configurations, aircraft wing design and wing configurations.

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Blohm & Voss BV 141

The Blohm & Voss BV 141 (originally the Ha 141) was a World War II German tactical reconnaissance aircraft, notable for its uncommon structural asymmetry.

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Blohm & Voss P 188

The Blohm & Voss Bv P 188 was a long-range, heavy jet bomber design project by the Blohm & Voss aircraft manufacturing division during the last years of the Third Reich.

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Boeing P-26 Peashooter

The Boeing P-26 "Peashooter" was the first American production all-metal fighter aircraft and the first pursuit monoplane to enter squadron service with the United States Army Air Corps.

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Boundary layer

In physics and fluid mechanics, a boundary layer is the thin layer of fluid in the immediate vicinity of a bounding surface formed by the fluid flowing along the surface. Wing configuration and boundary layer are aircraft wing design.

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Bracing (aeronautics)

In aeronautics, bracing comprises additional structural members which stiffen the functional airframe to give it rigidity and strength under load. Wing configuration and bracing (aeronautics) are aircraft wing design and wing configurations.

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Bristol F.2 Fighter

The Bristol F.2 Fighter is a British First World War two-seat biplane fighter and reconnaissance aircraft developed by Frank Barnwell at the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company later known as the Bristol Aeroplane Company.

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Busemann biplane

The Busemann biplane is a theoretical aircraft configuration invented by Adolf Busemann, which avoids the formation of N-type shock waves and thus does not create a sonic boom or the associated wave drag. Wing configuration and Busemann biplane are aircraft wing design and wing configurations.

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Canard (aeronautics)

In aeronautics, a canard is a wing configuration in which a small forewing or foreplane is placed forward of the main wing of a fixed-wing aircraft or a weapon. Wing configuration and canard (aeronautics) are aircraft wing design and wing configurations.

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Caproni Ca.60

The Caproni Ca.60 Transaereo, often referred to as the Noviplano (nine-wing) or Capronissimo, was the prototype of a large nine-wing flying boat intended to become a 100-passenger transatlantic airliner.

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Center of gravity of an aircraft

The center of gravity (CG) of an aircraft is the point over which the aircraft would balance.

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Cessna

Cessna is an American brand of general aviation aircraft owned by Textron Aviation since 2014, headquartered in Wichita, Kansas.

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Channel wing

The channel wing is an aircraft wing principle developed by Willard Ray Custer in the 1920s. Wing configuration and channel wing are aircraft wing design and wing configurations.

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Chine (aeronautics)

In aircraft design, a chine is a longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body. Wing configuration and chine (aeronautics) are aircraft configurations.

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Chord (aeronautics)

In aeronautics, the chord is an imaginary straight line joining the leading edge and trailing edge of an aerofoil. Wing configuration and chord (aeronautics) are aircraft wing design.

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Circular wing

A circular wing is a disc-shaped wing having the outer planform of a circle. Wing configuration and circular wing are wing configurations.

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Closed wing

A closed wing is a wing that effectively has two main planes which merge at their ends so that there are no conventional wing tips. Wing configuration and closed wing are aircraft wing design and wing configurations.

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Compression lift

In aerodynamics, compression lift refers to the increased pressure under an aircraft that uses shock waves generated by its own supersonic flight to generate lift.

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Concorde

Concorde is a retired Anglo-French supersonic airliner jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation (later Aérospatiale) and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC).

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Convertiplane

A convertiplane is defined by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI or World Air Sports Federation) as an aircraft which uses rotor power for vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) and converts to fixed-wing lift in normal flight.

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Crescent wing

The crescent wing is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration in which a swept wing has a greater sweep angle on the inboard section than the outboard, giving the wing a crescent shape. Wing configuration and crescent wing are wing configurations.

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Cross

A cross is a compound geometrical figure consisting of two intersecting lines segment, usually perpendicular to each other.

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Cruciform wing

A cruciform wing is a set of four individual wings arranged in the shape of a cross. Wing configuration and cruciform wing are aircraft wing design and wing configurations.

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Curtiss JN Jenny

The Curtiss JN "Jenny" was a series of biplanes built by the Glenn Curtiss Aeroplane Company of Hammondsport, New York, later the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company.

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Custer Channel Wing

The Custer Channel Wing was a series of American-built experimental aircraft designs of the 1940s and 1950s incorporating a half-barrel shaped section to each wing.

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Dassault Mirage III

The Dassault Mirage III is a family of single/dual-seat, single-engine, fighter aircraft developed and manufactured by French aircraft company Dassault Aviation.

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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. Wing configuration and delta wing are aircraft wing design and wing configurations.

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Dihedral (aeronautics)

In aeronautics, dihedral is the angle between the left and right wings (or tail surfaces) of an aircraft. Wing configuration and dihedral (aeronautics) are aircraft configurations, aircraft wing design and wing configurations.

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Douglas DC-3

The Douglas DC-3 is a propeller-driven airliner manufactured by Douglas Aircraft Company, which had a lasting effect on the airline industry in the 1930s to 1940s and World War II.

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Dunne D.5

The Dunne D.5 was a British experimental aircraft built in 1910.

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Edwards Rhomboidal

The Edwards Rhomboidal was an early British aircraft of extremely unorthodox configuration designed by E.W. Edwards.

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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. Wing configuration and Elevon are aircraft wing design.

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Elliptical wing

An elliptical wing is a wing planform whose leading and trailing edges each approximate two segments of an ellipse. Wing configuration and elliptical wing are aircraft wing design and wing configurations.

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Empennage

The empennage, also known as the tail or tail assembly, is a structure at the rear of an aircraft that provides stability during flight, in a way similar to the feathers on an arrow.

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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.

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Fairey Delta 1

The Fairey Delta 1 (FD1) was a research aircraft developed and produced by British aircraft manufacturer Fairey Aviation.

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Fiat CR.1

The Fiat CR.1 was an Italian biplane fighter aircraft of the 1920s.

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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. Wing configuration and fixed-wing aircraft are aircraft configurations.

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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.

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Flexible wing

In aeronautics, a flexible wing is an airfoil or aircraft wing which can deform in flight. Wing configuration and flexible wing are aircraft wing design and wing configurations.

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Flight International

Flight International is a monthly magazine focused on aerospace.

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Flying wing

A flying wing is a tailless fixed-wing aircraft that has no definite fuselage, with its crew, payload, fuel, and equipment housed inside the main wing structure. Wing configuration and flying wing are aircraft wing design and wing configurations.

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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.

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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.

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Fokker Eindecker fighters

The Fokker Eindecker fighters were a series of German World War I monoplane single-seat fighter aircraft designed by Dutch engineer Anthony Fokker.

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Folding wing

A folding wing is a wing configuration design feature of aircraft to save space and is typical of carrier-based aircraft that operate from the limited deck space of aircraft carriers.

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Forward-swept wing

A forward-swept wing or reverse-swept wing is an aircraft wing configuration in which the quarter-chord line of the wing has a forward sweep. Wing configuration and forward-swept wing are wing configurations.

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Frisbee

A frisbee (pronounced), also called a flying disc or simply a disc, is a gliding toy or sporting item that is generally made of injection-molded plastic and roughly in diameter with a pronounced lip.

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Fuselage

The fuselage (from the French fuselé "spindle-shaped") is an aircraft's main body section.

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Gérin 1936 Varivol biplane

The Gerin Varivol was a 1930s French research aircraft designed and built by Jacques Gerin.

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General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark

The General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark is a retired supersonic, medium-range, multirole combat aircraft.

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General Dynamics F-16XL

The General Dynamics F-16XL is a derivative of the F-16 Fighting Falcon with a cranked-arrow delta wing.

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General Dynamics–Boeing AFTI/F-111A Aardvark

The General Dynamics–Boeing AFTI/F-111A Aardvark was a research aircraft modified from a General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark to test a Boeing-built supercritical mission adaptive wing (MAW).

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Glaser-Dirks DG-500

The Glaser-Dirks DG-500, and later the DG-505, is a two-seat glider of glass-reinforced plastic and carbon fiber reinforced plastic construction, manufactured in the DG Flugzeugbau GmbH in Bruchsal, Germany.

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Glider (aircraft)

A glider is a fixed-wing aircraft that is supported in flight by the dynamic reaction of the air against its lifting surfaces, and whose free flight does not depend on an engine.

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Gull wing

The gull wing, also known as Polish wing or Puławski wing, is an aircraft wing configuration with a prominent bend in the wing inner section towards the wing root. Wing configuration and gull wing are aircraft wing design and wing configurations.

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Handley Page Victor

The Handley Page Victor is a British jet-powered strategic bomber developed and produced by Handley Page during the Cold War.

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Hanriot HD.1

The Hanriot HD.1 was a French World War I single-seat fighter aircraft.

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Hawker Hunter

The Hawker Hunter is a transonic British jet-powered fighter aircraft that was developed by Hawker Aircraft for the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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Hershey bar

The Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar (commonly called the Hershey's Bar, or more simply the Hershey Bar) is a flagship chocolate bar manufactured by The Hershey Company.

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HFB 320 Hansa Jet

The HFB 320 Hansa Jet is a twin-engine, ten-seat business jet that was designed and produced by German aircraft manufacturer Hamburger Flugzeugbau between 1964 and 1973.

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High-lift device

In aircraft design and aerospace engineering, a high-lift device is a component or mechanism on an aircraft's wing that increases the amount of lift produced by the wing. Wing configuration and high-lift device are aircraft wing design.

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Hillson Bi-mono

The Hillson Bi-mono was a British experimental aircraft of the 1940s.

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Horatio Frederick Phillips

Horatio Frederick Phillips (1845 – 1924) was an English aviation pioneer, born in Streatham, Surrey.

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Junkers Ju 87

The Junkers Ju 87, popularly known as the "Stuka", is a German dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft.

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Kite

A kite is a tethered heavier-than-air or lighter-than-air craft with wing surfaces that react against the air to create lift and drag forces. Wing configuration and kite are aircraft configurations.

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Krueger flap

Krueger flaps, or Krüger flaps, are lift enhancement devices that may be fitted to the leading edge of an aircraft wing. Wing configuration and Krueger flap are aircraft wing design.

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Leading-edge cuff

A leading-edge cuff is a fixed aerodynamic wing device employed on fixed-wing aircraft to improve the stall and spin characteristics. Wing configuration and leading-edge cuff are aircraft wing design.

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Leading-edge extension

A leading-edge extension (LEX) is a small extension to an aircraft wing surface, forward of the leading edge. Wing configuration and leading-edge extension are aircraft wing design.

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Leading-edge slat

A slat is an aerodynamic surface on the leading edge of the wing of a fixed-wing aircraft. Wing configuration and leading-edge slat are aircraft wing design.

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Leading-edge slot

A leading-edge slot is a fixed aerodynamic feature of the wing of some aircraft to reduce the stall speed and promote good low-speed handling qualities. Wing configuration and leading-edge slot are aircraft wing design.

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Lee-Richards annular monoplane

During the pioneer years before the First World War, Cedric Lee and G. Tilghman Richards in the UK built and flew a series of aircraft having a novel flat ring-shaped or annular wing.

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Lifting body

A lifting body is a fixed-wing aircraft or spacecraft configuration in which the body itself produces lift. Wing configuration and lifting body are aircraft configurations and wing configurations.

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Ligeti Stratos

The Stratos was an Australian single seat ultralight aircraft, developed by Charles Ligeti in the 1980s.

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Lockheed F-104 Starfighter

The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter is an American single-engine, supersonic interceptor which was extensively deployed as a fighter-bomber during the Cold War.

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Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

The Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" is a retired long-range, high-altitude, Mach 3+ strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed and manufactured by the American aerospace company Lockheed Corporation.

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Lockheed U-2

The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed "Dragon Lady", is an American single-engine, high altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated from the 1950s by the United States Air Force (USAF) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

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Martin Marietta X-24

The Martin Marietta X-24 was an American experimental aircraft developed from a joint United States Air Force-NASA program named PILOT (1963–1975).

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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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Mean

A mean is a numeric quantity representing the center of a collection of numbers and is intermediate to the extreme values of a set of numbers.

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Messerschmitt Bf 109

The Messerschmitt Bf 109 is a German World War II fighter aircraft that was, along with the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, the backbone of the Luftwaffe's fighter force.

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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 (Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-21; NATO reporting name: Fishbed) is a supersonic jet fighter and interceptor aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau in the Soviet Union.

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Missile

A missile is an airborne ranged weapon capable of self-propelled flight aided usually by a propellant, jet engine or rocket motor.

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Monoplane

A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration with a single mainplane, in contrast to a biplane or other types of multiplanes, which have multiple planes. Wing configuration and monoplane are wing configurations.

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Multiplane (aeronautics)

In aviation, a multiplane is a fixed-wing aircraft-configuration featuring multiple wing planes. Wing configuration and multiplane (aeronautics) are wing configurations.

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NASA AD-1

The NASA AD-1 was both an aircraft and an associated flight test program conducted between 1979 and 1982 at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards California, which successfully demonstrated an aircraft wing that could be pivoted obliquely from zero to 60 degrees during flight.

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Nieuport 17

The Nieuport 17 C.1 (or Nieuport XVII C.1 in contemporary sources) is a French sesquiplane fighter designed and manufactured by the Nieuport company during World War I. An improvement over the Nieuport 11, it was a little larger than earlier Nieuports and better adapted to the more powerful engine than the interim Nieuport 16.

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Nikitin-Shevchenko IS

The Nikitin-Schyevchyenko IS series (translit, meaning "folding fighter"), were single seat polymorphic fighters designed and produced in the USSR from 1938.

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North American X-15

The North American X-15 is a hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft operated by the United States Air Force and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the X-plane series of experimental aircraft.

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North American XB-70 Valkyrie

The North American Aviation XB-70 Valkyrie is a retired prototype version of the planned nuclear-armed, deep-penetration supersonic strategic bomber for the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command.

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Northrop B-2 Spirit

The Northrop B-2 Spirit, also known as the Stealth Bomber, is an American heavy strategic bomber, featuring low-observable stealth technology designed to penetrate dense anti-aircraft defenses.

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Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet

The Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet was a unique prototype fighter interceptor built by the Northrop Corporation.

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Oblique wing

An oblique wing (also called a slewed wing) is a variable geometry wing concept. Wing configuration and oblique wing are aircraft configurations, aircraft wing design and wing configurations.

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Outboard tail

An outboard tail is a type of aircraft tail or empennage which is split in two, with each half mounted on a short boom just behind and outboard of each wing tip. Wing configuration and outboard tail are aircraft wing design and wing configurations.

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Parafoil

A parafoil is a nonrigid (textile) airfoil with an aerodynamic cell structure which is inflated by the wind. Wing configuration and parafoil are aircraft wing design.

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Piper J-3 Cub

The Piper J-3 Cub is an American light aircraft that was built between 1938 and 1947 by Piper Aircraft.

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Polikarpov I-153

The Polikarpov I-153 Chaika (Russian Чайка, "Seagull") is a late 1930s Soviet sesquiplane fighter.

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Powered lift

A powered lift aircraft takes off and lands vertically under engine power but uses a fixed wing for horizontal flight.

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PZL P.11

The PZL P.11 is a Polish fighter aircraft, designed and produced in the early 1930s by Państwowe Zakłady Lotnicze.

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Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor

The Republic XF-91 Thunderceptor (originally designated XP-91) is a mixed-propulsion prototype interceptor aircraft, developed by Republic Aviation.

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Rogallo wing

The Rogallo wing is a flexible type of wing. Wing configuration and Rogallo wing are aircraft wing design.

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Rutan Quickie

The Rutan Model 54 Quickie is a lightweight single-seat taildragger aircraft of composite construction, configured with tandem wings.

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Saab 35 Draken

The Saab 35 Draken (The Kite, ambiguous with The Dragon) is a Swedish fighter-interceptor developed and manufactured by Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget (SAAB) between 1955 and 1974.

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Saab 37 Viggen

The Saab 37 Viggen (The Tufted Duck, ambiguous with The Thunderbolt) is a single-seat, single-engine multirole combat aircraft designed and produced by the Swedish aircraft manufacturer Saab.

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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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Seversky P-35

The Seversky P-35 is an American fighter aircraft built by the Seversky Aircraft Company in the late 1930s.

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Shock stall

A shock stall is a stall created when the airflow over an aircraft's wings is disturbed by shock waves formed when flying at or above the aircraft's drag divergence Mach number.

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Short SB.4 Sherpa

The Short SB.4 Sherpa was an experimental aircraft designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Short Brothers.

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SNECMA Coléoptère

The SNECMA C.450 Coléoptère (meaning "beetle" in French, descended from Greek for "sheathed wing") was a tail-sitting vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft designed by the French company SNECMA and manufactured by Nord Aviation.

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Sopwith Camel

The Sopwith Camel is a British First World War single-seat biplane fighter aircraft that was introduced on the Western Front in 1917.

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SpaceShipOne

SpaceShipOne is an experimental air-launched rocket-powered aircraft with sub-orbital spaceflight capability at speeds of up to / using a hybrid rocket motor.

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Stagger (aeronautics)

In aviation, stagger is the relative horizontal fore-aft positioning of stacked wings in a biplane, triplane, or multiplane. Wing configuration and stagger (aeronautics) are wing configurations.

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STOVL

A short take-off and vertical landing aircraft (STOVL aircraft) is a fixed-wing aircraft that is able to take off from a short runway (or take off vertically if it does not have a heavy payload) and land vertically (i.e. with no runway).

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Strake (aeronautics)

In aviation, a strake is an aerodynamic surface generally mounted on the fuselage of an aircraft to improve the flight characteristics either by controlling the airflow (acting as large vortex generators) or by a simple stabilising effect.

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Sukhoi Su-33

The Sukhoi Su-33 (Сухой Су-33; NATO reporting name: Flanker-D) is a Soviet/Russian all-weather carrier-based twin-engine air superiority fighter designed by Sukhoi and manufactured by Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Production Association, derived from the Su-27 and initially known as the Su-27K.

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Sukhoi Su-47

The Sukhoi Su-47 Berkut (translation) (NATO reporting name Firkin), also designated S-32 and S-37 (not to be confused with the twin-engined delta canard designButtler, Tony and Gordon, Yefim. "Soviet Secret Projects: Fighters Since 1945". Midland Publishing, 2005.. offered by Sukhoi in the early 1990s under the designation Su-37) during initial development, was a Russian experimental supersonic jet fighter developed by the JSC Sukhoi Company.

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Supermarine Spitfire

The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and other Allied countries before, during, and after World War II.

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Swept wing

A swept wing is a wing angled either backward or occasionally forward from its root rather than perpendicular to the fuselage. Wing configuration and swept wing are aircraft wing design and wing configurations.

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Tailless aircraft

In aeronautics, a tailless aircraft is an aircraft with no other horizontal aerodynamic surface besides its main wing. Wing configuration and tailless aircraft are aircraft wing design and wing configurations.

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Tailplane

A tailplane, also known as a horizontal stabilizer, is a small lifting surface located on the tail (empennage) behind the main lifting surfaces of a fixed-wing aircraft as well as other non-fixed-wing aircraft such as helicopters and gyroplanes.

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Takeoff

Takeoff is the phase of flight in which an aerospace vehicle leaves the ground and becomes airborne.

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Tandem wing

QAC Quickie Q2 A tandem wing is a wing configuration in which a flying craft or animal has two or more sets of wings set one behind another. Wing configuration and tandem wing are aircraft wing design and wing configurations.

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Three-surface aircraft

A three-surface aircraft or sometimes three-lifting-surface aircraft has a foreplane, a central wing and a tailplane. Wing configuration and three-surface aircraft are aircraft configurations and wing configurations.

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Transonic

Transonic (or transsonic) flow is air flowing around an object at a speed that generates regions of both subsonic and supersonic airflow around that object.

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Trapezoidal wing

In aeronautics, a trapezoidal wing is a straight-edged and tapered wing planform. Wing configuration and trapezoidal wing are aircraft wing design and wing configurations.

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Triplane

A triplane is a fixed-wing aircraft equipped with three vertically stacked wing planes. Wing configuration and triplane are wing configurations.

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Unmanned aerial vehicle

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board.

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Variable-camber wing

Variable camber is a feature of some of aircraft wings that changes the camber (or curvature) of the main aerofoil during flight. Wing configuration and Variable-camber wing are wing configurations.

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Variable-incidence wing

A variable-incidence wing has an adjustable angle of incidence relative to its fuselage. Wing configuration and variable-incidence wing are aircraft configurations, aircraft wing design and wing configurations.

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Variable-sweep wing

A variable-sweep wing, colloquially known as a "swing wing", is an airplane wing, or set of wings, that may be modified during flight, swept back and then returned to its previous straight position. Wing configuration and variable-sweep wing are wing configurations.

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Voisin 1907 biplane

The 1907 Voisin biplane (designated the Voisin II by the 1913 edition of Jane's All the World's Aircraft), was Europe's first successful powered aircraft, designed by aeronautical engineer and manufacturer Gabriel Voisin.

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Vortex generator

A vortex generator (VG) is an aerodynamic device, consisting of a small vane usually attached to a lifting surface (or airfoil, such as an aircraft wing) or a rotor blade of a wind turbine. Wing configuration and vortex generator are aircraft wing design.

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Vortilon

Vortilons are fixed aerodynamic devices on aircraft wings used to improve handling at low speeds.

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Vought F-8 Crusader

The Vought F-8 Crusader (originally F8U) is a single-engine, supersonic, carrier-based air superiority jet aircraft designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer Vought.

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Vought V-173

The Vought V-173 "Flying Pancake" was an American experimental test aircraft built as part of the Vought XF5U program during World War II.

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Wave drag

In aeronautics, wave drag is a component of the aerodynamic drag on aircraft wings and fuselage, propeller blade tips and projectiles moving at transonic and supersonic speeds, due to the presence of shock waves.

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Westland Lysander

The Westland Lysander is a British army co-operation and liaison aircraft produced by Westland Aircraft that was used immediately before and during the Second World War.

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Westland N.1B

The Westland N.1B was a prototype British single-engined floatplane fighter aircraft of the First World War.

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Wetted area

In fluid dynamics, the wetted area is the surface area that interacts with the working fluid or gas.

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Whitehead No. 21

The Whitehead No.21 was the aircraft that aviation pioneer Gustave Whitehead claimed to have flown near Bridgeport, Connecticut on August 14, 1901.

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Wing

A wing is a type of fin that produces lift while moving through air or some other fluid.

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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.

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Wingtip device

Wingtip devices are intended to improve the efficiency of fixed-wing aircraft by reducing drag. Wing configuration and Wingtip device are aircraft configurations.

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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.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_configuration

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