• A circular wing is a disc-shaped wing having the outer planform of a circle. If the aircraft has no fuselage or tail the disc-shaped craft is sometimes...
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    DRDO SWIFT and the BAE Systems Taranis. List of flying wings Circular wing Oblique wing Vincent Burnelli Zanonia macrocarpa Crane, Dale: Dictionary of...
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    Nashville, Tennessee, merged with Vought. Vought's Nashville site supplies wing components for Airbus A319, A320, A330, and A340. Boeing announced in July...
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  • Nemeth Parasol (category Circular-wing aircraft)
    was a prototype of a taildragger tractor configuration airplane with circular wing set in a parasol configuration. It was designed by Steven Nemeth from...
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    Vought XF5U (category Circular-wing aircraft)
    included a cockpit redesign moving the cockpit from the leading edge of the wing to a nose nacelle that extended further in front of the leading edge. The...
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    Sack AS-6 (category Circular-wing aircraft)
    prototype circular-winged aircraft built privately during the Second World War. In July 1938, local farmer Arthur Sack entered his AS-1 circular-winged model...
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    Vought V-173 (category Circular-wing aircraft)
    138 mph (222 km/h, 120 kn) Climb time to 5,000 ft (1,500 m): 7 min Circular wing Related development Vought XF5U Arup S-2 Aircraft of comparable role...
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    Lee-Richards annular monoplane (category Circular-wing aircraft)
    example of a statically stable aircraft. Following a series of patents on circular-wing aircraft taken out by Williband Franz Zelger and Isaac Henry Storey...
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    aircraft Circular wing Heinzerling, Werner. "Flügelpfeilung und Flächenregel, zwei grundlegende deutsche Patente der Flugzeugaerodynamik" [Wing Sweep and...
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    Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar (category Circular-wing aircraft)
    (some never before seen by senior company officials) for a completely circular disk-shaped aircraft known as "Project Y-2". The USAF agreed to take over...
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  • A flying wing is a type of tailless aircraft which has no distinct fuselage. The crew, engines and equipment are housed inside a thick wing, typically...
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    A circular economy (also referred to as circularity or CE) is a model of resource production and consumption in any economy that involves sharing, leasing...
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  • Lenticular Reentry Vehicle (category Circular-wing aircraft)
    The Lenticular Reentry Vehicle (LRV), according to a November 2000 Popular Mechanics cover story, was an experimental nuclear warhead delivery system under...
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    hover and landing X-35B Demonstrator vertical landing Aviation portal Circular wing List of Nikola Tesla patents List of VTOL aircraft McDonnell Douglas...
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  • aircraft built in France in 1933 to investigate the behaviour of a semi-circular wing fitted with unconventional controls. It had a short career and only...
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    species from China, the wheel wingnut with similar foliage but an unusual circular wing right round the nut (instead of two wings at the sides), previously...
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    with an entire margin. The fruit is a dry woody nutlet centred in a circular wing 2–3.5 cm in diameter. As suggested by the Latin name, the spiny branches...
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  • rotor wings, with the wing tip ramjets now angled to provide forward thrust. A few years later the American Vought XF5U circular-winged fighter prototype...
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    Koblenz was housed until 1918 at the head end of the southern semi-circular wing. Between 1842 and 1845, the interior was redesigned by Johann Claudius...
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    Moller M200G Volantor (category Circular-wing aircraft)
    of vehicle described by Moller as a "volantor". The M200G Neuera is a circular craft with seats in the middle for two passengers and a control panel....
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    or globe-shaped capsule forms filled with brown seeds, each with a circular "wing" around it. The genus Lophospermum was first described in March 1826...
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    auxiliary combustion chambers located on the trailing edges of the circular wing. When fuel was added, the auxiliary combustion chambers acted as primitive...
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    Constantinos Vlachos built a prototype of a 'tri-phibian' vehicle with a circular wing, but it caught fire after the engine exploded while he was demonstrating...
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    for stability. Flying saucer: circular flying wing. Inherently unstable, as the Avro Canada Avrocar demonstrated. Disc wing: a variant in which the entire...
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  • The Specie Circular is a United States presidential executive order issued by President Andrew Jackson on 11 July 1836 pursuant to the Coinage Act of 1834...
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  • outside of the fruit and is shaped like a spiral galaxy. Including the circular wing, it is up to four inches (ten centimeters) wide. Svahnström, V.; Paradis...
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    female catkins 25–30 cm long at maturity, bearing several small winged nuts with a circular wing 2.5–6 cm diameter right round the nut (instead of two wings...
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    often about mid-October. The pod is 2–3 cm diameter, surrounded by a circular wing 8–12 cm diameter, reminiscent of a brown fried egg, and containing a...
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    Farman F.1020 – Semi-circular wing Fouga Gemeaux – Engine testbed Gastambide-Levavasseur Variable Surface Aircraft – Variable chord wing testbed Gérin Varivol...
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    abductions is The Flying Saucers Are Very Very Real (2016). Close encounter Circular wing Flying Saucers from Outer Space (also by Keyhoe) UFO conspiracy theory...
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