• Thumbnail for Wing configuration
    The wing configuration or planform of a fixed-wing aircraft (including both gliders and powered aeroplanes) is its arrangement of lifting and related surfaces...
    50 KB (5,550 words) - 01:16, 25 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Delta wing
    without increasing drag. Variants of the delta wing plan offer improvements to the basic configuration. Cropped delta – tip is cut off. This helps maintain...
    35 KB (4,082 words) - 07:42, 27 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Airplane
    rocket engine. Airplanes come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and wing configurations. The broad spectrum of uses for airplanes includes recreation, transportation...
    56 KB (6,468 words) - 00:40, 24 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for DRDO Ghatak
    objective to develop a stealthy UCAV based on flying wing design. The flying wing configuration is inherently stealthy, can carry more fuel and payload...
    21 KB (1,722 words) - 09:13, 29 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Monoplane
    Monoplane (redirect from Parasol wing)
    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...
    13 KB (1,543 words) - 03:11, 12 May 2025
  • indicated the Chinese designs would use tailless flying wing or flying arrowhead configuration that can provide greater broadband stealth characteristics...
    14 KB (1,177 words) - 05:14, 14 May 2025
  • 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 (1,812 words) - 16:28, 2 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Flying wing
    a pure flying wing is theoretically the lowest-drag design configuration for a fixed wing aircraft, a lack of conventional stabilizing surfaces and the...
    37 KB (4,492 words) - 15:14, 26 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Swept wing
    wing area.[citation needed] Delta wing Theodore von Kármán, first to recognize the importance of the swept wing Trapezoidal wing Wing configuration The...
    61 KB (8,240 words) - 08:08, 31 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Bird flight
    action of air flow on the wing, which is an airfoil. The airfoil is shaped such that the air provides a net upward force on the wing, while the movement of...
    47 KB (5,631 words) - 05:29, 23 May 2025
  • the configuration that provides the absolute minimum induced drag for a given total vertical lift is a closed system, i.e. a rectangular box wing with...
    22 KB (2,339 words) - 02:32, 25 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Tandem wing
    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. All the wings contribute...
    22 KB (2,547 words) - 21:18, 23 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Canard (aeronautics)
    Canard (aeronautics) (category Wing configurations)
    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...
    38 KB (4,151 words) - 08:25, 8 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Variable-sweep wing
    aircraft configuration for high-speed flight, which he regarded as distinct from the conventional fixed-wing aeroplane and called it the wing controlled...
    42 KB (4,743 words) - 04:11, 18 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Biplane
    Biplane (category Wing configurations)
    with each other's behaviour. In a biplane configuration with no stagger from the upper wing to the lower wing, the lift coefficient is reduced by 10 to...
    32 KB (4,104 words) - 19:24, 23 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Gull wing
    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...
    16 KB (2,008 words) - 04:10, 18 March 2025
  • armor-plated hull and improved SFS L-s9.3 laser cannons. The "bent-wing" configuration was intended to improve energy collection while maintaining the same...
    44 KB (5,007 words) - 14:32, 23 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Blended wing body
    1000+ seat Blended Wing Body aircraft configurations". Evacmod (video). Retrieved August 25, 2015. "Boeing not convinced by blended wing aircraft design"...
    29 KB (2,489 words) - 05:13, 19 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Aspect ratio (aeronautics)
    aspect ratio wing, while the Avro Vulcan has a low aspect ratio wing. They have, however, a very similar wetted aspect ratio. Wing configuration Boeing Truss-Braced...
    12 KB (1,629 words) - 18:25, 1 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wing
    types Ornithopter – Flapping-wing aircraft (research prototypes, simple toys and models) Otto Lilienthal Wing configuration Wingsuit Sailing: Sails Forces...
    16 KB (1,847 words) - 15:21, 11 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Fixed-wing aircraft
    monoplane tractor configuration. It had movable tail surfaces controlling both yaw and pitch, a form of roll control supplied either by wing warping or by...
    54 KB (6,515 words) - 14:46, 21 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Trapezoidal wing
    trapezoidal configuration offers some advantages for high-speed flight and has been used on a small number of aircraft types. In this wing configuration, the...
    5 KB (683 words) - 13:49, 12 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Horten Ho 229
    the rest of the design to meet the range requirement. The flying wing configuration was favoured by the Horten brothers due to its high aerodynamic efficiency...
    34 KB (3,973 words) - 11:49, 28 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Ground-effect vehicle
    design. Tandem wings can have three configurations: A biplane-style type-1 utilising a shoulder-mounted main lift wing and belly-mounted sponsons similar...
    50 KB (5,544 words) - 13:50, 8 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Boeing X-66
    Boeing X-66 (category High-wing aircraft)
    extra-long and thin wing design stabilized by diagonal bracing struts, which is known as a Transonic Truss-Braced Wing. The aircraft configuration was based on...
    12 KB (951 words) - 11:16, 22 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Stabilizer (aeronautics)
    stability and control may be obtained with other wing configurations, including canard, tandem wing and tailless aircraft. Some types of aircraft are...
    20 KB (2,402 words) - 17:26, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Airbus Sagitta
    of the Sagitta Flying Wing Configuration, S.Pfnür, C. Breitsamter Design Process and Manufacturing of an Unmanned Blended Wing-body Aircraft, B. Gramüller...
    6 KB (541 words) - 12:50, 2 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for 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...
    14 KB (1,263 words) - 04:34, 24 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Sukhoi Su-47
    Sukhoi Su-47 (category Forward-swept-wing aircraft)
    forward-swept wing which gave the aircraft excellent agility and maneuverability. While serial production of the type never materialized and the configuration was...
    13 KB (1,311 words) - 17:49, 15 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Oblique wing
    An oblique wing (also called a slewed wing) is a variable geometry wing concept. On an aircraft so equipped, the wing is designed to rotate on center pivot...
    11 KB (1,279 words) - 00:19, 26 May 2025