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1Swept wing — A swept wing is a wing planform common on high speed aircraft, with the wing swept back instead of being set at right angles to the fuselage. This is a useful drag reducing measure for aircraft flying just below the speed of sound. Forward sweep… …
2Delta wing — HAL Tejas has a tailless delta wing configuration …
3Channel wing — aircraft CCW 5 The channel wing is an aircraft wing principle developed by Willard Ray Custer in the 1920s. The most important part of the wing consists of a half tube with an engine placed in the middle, driving a propeller placed at the rear… …
4Variable camber wing — is a design of aircraft wing by V.J. Burnelli that changes the camber of the airfoil (1933), and varies the area and camber of the wing (1937).This is depicted in the figure below. A mechanism moves and rotates the leading and trailing edge to… …
5Beam center — Beam Beam (b[=e]m), n. [AS. be[ a]m beam, post, tree, ray of light; akin to OFries. b[=a]m tree, OS. b[=o]m, D. boom, OHG. boum, poum, G. baum, Icel. ba[eth]mr, Goth. bagms and Gr. fy^ma a growth, fy^nai to become, to be. Cf. L. radius staff, rod …
6NASA Pathfinder — Helios Prototype Helios Prototype in flight Role Remote controlled UAV Manufacturer …
72002 airtanker crashes — In 2002, two large airtankers ndash; a C 130 Hercules and a P4Y 2 Privateer ndash; crashed about a month apart while performing aerial firefighting operations. These crashes prompted a review of the maintenance and use of the entire U.S. large… …
8Beechcraft Model 18 — Model 18 Instructor and pilot in a Beechcraft AT 7 doing navigation training at Kelly Field, TX. Role Trainer …
9John Carver Meadows Frost — known as Jack (born 1915 in Walton on Thames, England, died 9 October 1979 in Auckland, New Zealand) was a British aircraft designer. His primary contributions centred on pioneering supersonic British experimental aircraft and as the chief… …
10Albatros D.III — Role Fighter Manufacturer Albatros Flugzeugwerke Designer Robert Thelen First flight …
