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  • Thumbnail for Airplane
    An airplane (American English) or aeroplane (Commonwealth English), informally plane, is a fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from...
    56 KB (6,424 words) - 23:20, 10 June 2024
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    wide wing has a low aspect ratio. Aspect ratio and other features of the planform are often used to predict the aerodynamic efficiency of a wing because...
    12 KB (1,621 words) - 18:03, 4 April 2024
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    A fixed-wing aircraft is a heavier-than-air flying machine, such as an airplane, which is capable of flight using aerodynamic lift. Fixed-wing aircraft...
    53 KB (6,462 words) - 21:48, 17 June 2024
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    differs from the hovercraft in lacking low-speed hover capability in much the same way that a fixed-wing airplane differs from the helicopter. Unlike the...
    44 KB (4,845 words) - 16:51, 12 June 2024
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    drag. Like any wing, at low speeds a delta wing requires a high angle of attack to maintain lift. At a sufficiently high angle the wing exhibits flow separation...
    35 KB (4,027 words) - 13:37, 10 May 2024
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    toward the low wing, drawing the airplane sideways. This is the still-air, headwind or tailwind scenario. In case of crosswind, the wing is lowered into...
    11 KB (1,531 words) - 23:08, 22 January 2024
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    Paper plane (redirect from Paper airplane)
    A paper plane (also known as a paper airplane or paper dart in American English, or paper aeroplane in British English) is a toy aircraft, usually a glider...
    30 KB (4,200 words) - 14:49, 19 May 2024
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    airplanes spin only if the pilot simultaneously yaws and stalls the airplane (intentionally or unintentionally). Under these circumstances, one wing stalls...
    37 KB (5,137 words) - 10:18, 8 May 2024
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    literally blowing the roof off. This low pressure above/high pressure below is the same phenomenon that allows an airplane wing to provide lift even though in...
    11 KB (1,169 words) - 11:16, 15 June 2024
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    Angel wing, also known as airplane wing, slipped wing, crooked wing, and drooped wing,[citation needed] is a syndrome that affects primarily aquatic birds...
    4 KB (422 words) - 04:09, 16 April 2024
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    as the sails of a rotor ship. He also suggested its use as a wing for a rotor airplane. The Butler Ames Aerocycle was built in 1910 and tested aboard...
    2 KB (243 words) - 07:05, 10 April 2024
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    between advantages such as speed, low energy use, and maneuverability. Two important parameters are the aspect ratio and wing loading. Aspect ratio is the...
    7 KB (878 words) - 13:30, 25 July 2023
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    single-deck blended-wing-body" (PDF). ICAS. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-12-20. "Don't look for commercial BWB airplane any time soon, says...
    24 KB (2,170 words) - 01:17, 12 June 2024
  • in the field of aircraft design, primarily through his Bullet, a low-wing airplane with relatively high speeds and a patented retractable landing gear...
    10 KB (1,310 words) - 04:30, 12 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for BK Fliers BK-1
    BK-1 is an all-aluminum, monocoque/semi-monocoque, single-engine, low-wing airplane, with either conventional or tricycle landing gear. The BK-1.3 is...
    5 KB (344 words) - 01:39, 30 October 2022
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    Dihedral (aeronautics) (category Aircraft wing design)
    obscure term related to the pitch axis of an airplane. It is the angle between the zero-lift axis of the wing and the zero-lift axis of the horizontal tail...
    21 KB (2,703 words) - 15:38, 9 March 2024
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    to attain lift and maintain stability. Flying model airplanes Helicopters, which use a rotating wing with a variable pitch angle to provide directional...
    18 KB (1,693 words) - 08:16, 17 March 2024
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    Piper PA-28 Cherokee (category Low-wing aircraft)
    piston-engined airplanes with low-mounted wings and tricycle landing gear. They have a single door on the right side, which is entered by stepping on the wing. The...
    59 KB (6,477 words) - 23:10, 28 May 2024
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    Boeing 777X (section Wing)
    twin-engine jetliners in the Boeing 777 family from Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The 777X features new GE9X engines, new composite wings with folding...
    105 KB (9,024 words) - 22:11, 9 June 2024
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    Mooney M-18 Mite (category Low-wing aircraft)
    low-wing, single-place monoplane with retractable, tricycle landing gear. The Mite was designed by Al Mooney and was intended as a personal airplane marketed...
    8 KB (732 words) - 13:55, 3 March 2024
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