Wing (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Biology 2 Military terms 3 Places 4 People 5 Entertainment 5.1 Fiction 5.2 Television 5.3 Music 5.4 Film 5.5 Sports 5.6 Games 6 Computing 7 Other

A wing is an appendage used for flight by an animal or an apparatus used to create lift in aeronautics.

Wing or wings may also refer to:

[edit] Biology

• Insect wing
• Bat wing
• Bird wing

[edit] Military terms

• Wing (air force unit)
• "Wings", a colloquial term for the Aircrew Badge (US) or Aircrew brevet (UK) worn by military fliers and the Parachutist Badge worn by paratroopers

[edit] Places

• Wing, Buckinghamshire, a village in England
• Wing, Rutland, a village in England
• Port Wing (town), Wisconsin, a town (civil township) in the United States
• Wing, North Dakota, a city in the United States
• Wing River Township, Minnesota, a township in the United States

[edit] People

• Wing (Transformers), a fictional character.
• Craig Wing, a rugby league player for the Sydney Roosters
• Grace Barnett Wing, birthname of Grace Slick, American lead singer of Jefferson Airplane and related acts
• Joseph Wing and William Ricketson Wing, owners of J. & W. R. Wing Company, a whaling company
• Lorna Wing, a researcher of Asperger's Syndrome
• Toby Wing, an American actress
• Wing (singer), a New Zealand singer originally from Hong Kong
• Wings Hauser, an American actor

[edit] Entertainment

[edit] Fiction

• Wings (Aprilynne Pike), a young-adult faerie novel by Aprilynne Pike
• Wing (DC Comics), a DC Comics character
• Wing (Marvel Comics), a minor Astonishing X-Men character
• Wings, by Mikhail Kuzmin
• Wings (manga magazine)
• Wings (play), a 1978 Arthur Kopit play
• Wings, the third in The Bromeliad trilogy of children's books by Terry Pratchett
• Wing, an island in Julie Bertgna's book Exodus (2002 novel)

[edit] Television

• "Wing" (South Park), an episode of South Park featuring the singer Wing
• Wings (TV series), which ran on NBC from 1990 to 1997
• Wings (BBC TV series), a BBC drama which ran from 1976 to 1977
• Wings (Discovery Channel TV series), documentary show about aircraft

[edit] Music

• Wings (band), Paul McCartney's 1970s band
• Wings (1968 band), an American folk rock band
• Wings (Mark Chesnutt album), a 1995 album
• Wings (Bonnie Tyler album), a 2005 album by singer Bonnie Tyler
• Wing Records, a record label

[edit] Film

• Wings (film), a 1927 film about World War I fighter pilots
• Wings (1966 film), by Soviet filmmaker Larisa Shepitko

[edit] Sports

• Detroit Red Wings, an NHL hockey team
• Philadelphia Wings, an NLL lacrosse team
• Kalamazoo Wings, a UHL hockey team based in Kalamazoo, Michigan
• Winger (sport), a position in several sports

[edit] Games

• Wings (1996 video game), a computer game with space ships
• Wings (series), several World War I computer flying games by Cinemaware

[edit] Computing

• WinG, a Windows interface in computing
• Wings 3D, an open source computer graphics modeling program
• WINGs, a Widget toolkit used by Window Maker
• WINGs Display Manager, an X display manager

[edit] Other

• airfoil or aerofoil (British English), shape of a wing or blade (of a propeller, rotor or turbine) or sail as seen in cross-section.
• T-Mobile Wing, a Pocket PC telephone
• Wings, or Backplate and wing, a type of buoyancy compensation device worn by scuba divers
• Wings (haircut), a haircut style
• Wings Alliance, a proposed airline alliance
• Fender (automobile) or wing, the automobile panel which surrounds the wheel
• WING, an AM radio station in Dayton, Ohio
• The wings, an area of a theatre stage, hidden from the audience
• WINGS, an international camp organized by Girlguiding Royal Berkshire and Berkshire Scouts

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