The wing configuration or planform of a fixed-wing aircraft (including both gliders and powered aeroplanes) is its arrangement of lifting and related surfaces...

without increasing drag. Variants of the delta wing plan offer improvements to the basic configuration. Cropped delta – tip is cut off. This helps maintain...

rocket engine. Airplanes come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and wing configurations. The broad spectrum of uses for airplanes includes recreation, transportation...

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...

objective to develop a stealthy UCAV based on flying wing design. The flying wing configuration is inherently stealthy, can carry more fuel and payload...

a pure flying wing is theoretically the lowest-drag design configuration for a fixed wing aircraft, a lack of conventional stabilizing surfaces and the...

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...

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...

indicated the Chinese designs would use tailless flying wing or flying arrowhead configuration that can provide greater broadband stealth characteristics...

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...

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...

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...

types Ornithopter – Flapping-wing aircraft (research prototypes, simple toys and models) Otto Lilienthal Wing configuration Wingsuit Sailing: Sails Forces...

wing area.[citation needed] Delta wing Theodore von Kármán, first to recognize the importance of the swept wing Trapezoidal wing Wing configuration The...

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...

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...

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...

aircraft configuration for high-speed flight, which he regarded as distinct from the conventional fixed-wing aeroplane and called it the wing controlled...

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...

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...

1000+ seat Blended Wing Body aircraft configurations". Evacmod (video). Retrieved August 25, 2015. "Boeing not convinced by blended wing aircraft design"...

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...

missions. The CH-802 is a fixed-wing micro air vehicle (MAV) in the conventional layout with an elevated high-wing configuration and V-tail. The CH-802 has...

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...

design. Tandem wings can have three configurations: A biplane-style type-1 utilising a shoulder-mounted main lift wing and belly-mounted sponsons similar...

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...

of the Sagitta Flying Wing Configuration, S.Pfnür, C. Breitsamter Design Process and Manufacturing of an Unmanned Blended Wing-body Aircraft, B. Gramüller...

downward curving wing. The wing location on a fixed-wing aircraft will also influence its dihedral effect. A high-wing configuration provides about 5°...

reconnaissance bomber; early versions of the He 111 bomber also used such a wing configuration before a simpler design was adopted for economic reasons. Theoretically...

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...