Jump to content

Search results

View (previous 20 | ) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)
  • Thumbnail for Airplane
    An airplane (North American English) or aeroplane (British English), informally plane, is a fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from...
    56 KB (6,445 words) - 04:30, 10 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fixed-wing aircraft
    A fixed-wing aircraft is a heavier-than-air aircraft, such as an airplane, which is capable of flight using aerodynamic lift. Fixed-wing aircraft are distinct...
    53 KB (6,461 words) - 20:49, 8 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aspect ratio (aeronautics)
    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
  • Thumbnail for Ground-effect vehicle
    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 (4,857 words) - 17:46, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coffin corner (aerodynamics)
    reason why the wing stalls when it exceeds its critical angle of attack is that the airflow over the top of the wing separates. When the airplane exceeds its...
    11 KB (1,528 words) - 22:28, 20 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Delta wing
    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
  • Thumbnail for Paper plane
    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...
    31 KB (4,200 words) - 19:53, 29 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Angel wing
    Angel wing, also known as airplane wing, slipped wing, crooked wing, and drooped wing,[citation needed] is a syndrome that affects primarily aquatic birds...
    3 KB (265 words) - 16:48, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bird wing
    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
  • Thumbnail for Spin (aerodynamics)
    airplanes spin only if the pilot simultaneously yaws and stalls the airplane (intentionally or unintentionally). Under these circumstances, one wing stalls...
    38 KB (5,054 words) - 16:04, 30 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Blended wing body
    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) - 13:06, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wing
    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 (1,688 words) - 13:36, 22 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Slip (aerodynamics)
    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) - 16:26, 7 September 2024
  • likely be a few thousand dollars. 747 Wing House Boeing Boeing 727 Airbus Aircraft boneyard ”Airplane Homes”, Airplane Homes.com, 2003, accessed March 15...
    5 KB (605 words) - 13:39, 18 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Kline–Fogleman airfoil
    or multiple steps along the length of the wing. It was originally devised in the 1960s for paper airplanes. In the 21st century the KF airfoil has found...
    14 KB (1,885 words) - 21:12, 17 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Channel wing
    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 (1,170 words) - 07:02, 21 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 (1,315 words) - 22:21, 17 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Piper PA-28 Cherokee
    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...
    60 KB (6,558 words) - 00:51, 11 September 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
  • Thumbnail for Stall (fluid dynamics)
    flight. The separation of flow from the upper wing surface at high angles of attack is quite different at low Reynolds number from that at the high Reynolds...
    55 KB (7,278 words) - 22:53, 14 August 2024
View (previous 20 | ) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)