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11Conformal fuel tank — An F 15E Strike Eagle fitted with conformal fuel tanks under the wing roots …
12Deceleron — A U.S. Navy A 6E Intruder approaches for a landing on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) in 1980, with its decelerons and tail hook deployed. A deceleron, or split aileron, was developed in the late 1940s by Northrop originally for use on the… …
13Fuselage — of a Boeing 737 shown in brown The fuselage (pronounced /ˈfjuːzəlɑːʒ/; from the French fuselé spindle shaped ) is an aircraft s main body section that holds crew and passengers or cargo. In single engine aircraft it will usually contain an… …
14Navigation light — The winglet and red navigation light on the port (left) wing of a South African Airways Boeing 747 400 aircraft A navigation light is a colored source of illumination on an aircraft, spacecraft, or waterborne vessel, used to signal a craft s… …
15Drogue parachute — A B 52H Stratofortress from the 307th Bomb Wing deploying its drag chute for landing …
16Conventional landing gear — The Piper Super Cub is a popular taildragger aircraft …
17Drop tank — A 330 US gallons (1,200 L) Sargent Fletcher drop tank being moved across the flight deck of an Aircraft carrier In aeronautics, a drop tank (external tank, wing tank, or belly tank) is used to describe auxiliary fuel tanks externally carried …
18Rib (aircraft) — Rib Wing ribs of a de Havilland DH.60 Moth In an aircraft, ribs are forming elements of the structure of a wing, especially in traditional construction. By analogy with the anatomical definition of rib , the ribs attach to the main spar, and …
19Cruciform tail — BAe Jetstream 31 with cruciform tail The cruciform tail is an aircraft empennage configuration which, when viewed from the aircraft s front or rear, looks much like a cross. The usual arrangement is to have the horizontal stabilizer intersect the …
20NACA cowling — Curtiss AT 5A Hawk with NACA cowling at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, October 1928 …
