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  • Thumbnail for Swept wing
    A swept wing is a wing angled either backward or occasionally forward from its root rather than perpendicular to the fuselage. Swept wings have been flown...
    61 KB (8,233 words) - 00:01, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tupolev Tu-95
    sound. Its distinctive swept-back wings are set at an angle of 35°. The Tu-95 is the only propeller-driven aircraft with swept wings built in large numbers...
    61 KB (6,055 words) - 04:21, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Variable-sweep wing
    as a "swing wing", is an airplane wing, or set of wings, that may be swept back and then returned to its original straight position during flight. It...
    41 KB (4,720 words) - 21:05, 13 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Grumman F-14 Tomcat
    swing automatically during flight. For high-speed intercept, they are swept back and they swing forward for lower speed flight. It was designed to improve...
    166 KB (19,400 words) - 19:46, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rolls-Royce Trent 900
    for thrusts between 334.29 and 374.09 kN (75,152 to 84,098 lbf). Its swept-back fan is inherited from the Trent 8104 demonstrator and a contra-rotating...
    16 KB (1,877 words) - 10:02, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Indian swiftlet
    long species is mainly dark brown above and paler brown below. It has swept-back wings that resemble a crescent or a boomerang. The body is slender, and...
    2 KB (242 words) - 14:55, 15 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ilyushin Il-2
    of the added rear gunner and lengthened cockpit was the reason for the swept back outer wings in later Il-2s. In February 1945, the highest scoring German...
    60 KB (7,852 words) - 11:42, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for 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. Typically...
    13 KB (1,773 words) - 08:44, 13 December 2023
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    drag penalty, if designed carefully. The non-planar wing tip is often swept back like a raked wingtip and may also be combined with a winglet. A winglet...
    45 KB (4,756 words) - 15:40, 1 May 2024
  • the deaths of six of his men. Later, stranded on a raft, Odysseus was swept back through the strait and passed near Charybdis. His raft was sucked into...
    8 KB (904 words) - 20:17, 24 May 2024
  • horizontal stabilizer. The vertical stabilizer was swept back at 60°, and the horizontal stabilizer was swept back and slightly dihedralled. The horizontal stabilizer...
    17 KB (2,140 words) - 13:45, 2 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cessna 172
    and rudder. In 1960, the 172A incorporated revised landing gear and the swept-back tailfin, which is still in use today. The final aesthetic development...
    61 KB (6,169 words) - 20:56, 28 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Henschel & Son
    Henschel Projekt P.75, a 1941 design with slightly swept-back wings placed at the rear, swept-back canards at the front, and double pusher propellers...
    12 KB (1,142 words) - 21:40, 22 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Messerschmitt P.1101
    order for Messerschmitt to carry out experimental flights, testing the swept back wing at anticipated speeds up to Mach 1. The worsening war situation led...
    14 KB (1,865 words) - 13:47, 2 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for IAR 99
    Force. The aircraft is of semi-monocoque design, with tapered wings and a swept-back tail unit. A large blade-type antenna installed beneath the nose on the...
    21 KB (2,359 words) - 03:09, 17 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23
    conjunction with wing control surfaces when the wings were not fully swept back. In addition to a large vertical stabilizer (which also stored the brake...
    144 KB (18,746 words) - 14:22, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wing configuration
    cropped compound deltas with (forwards or backwards) swept trailing edge, or as sharply tapered swept wings with large leading edge root extensions (or LERX)...
    50 KB (5,548 words) - 05:54, 29 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arado E.560
    Four-engined bomber project powered by turbojet engines. The wings were swept back. Data from Dieter Herwig & Heinz Rode, The Luftwaffe Secret Projects:...
    11 KB (607 words) - 00:02, 22 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Focke-Wulf Volksjäger
    configurations were designed for the Fw Volksjäger 1, straight and swept back. The wings of the swept back version spanned 7.5 m (26 ft 7 in) and had an area of 13...
    7 KB (837 words) - 02:24, 21 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Asian palm swift
    This 13 cm long species is mainly pale brown in colour. It has long swept-back wings that resemble a crescent or a boomerang. The body is slender, and...
    3 KB (289 words) - 14:48, 28 February 2024
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