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  • 1Ice protection system — Ice protection systems are designed to keep atmospheric ice from accumulating on aircraft flight surfaces while in flight. The effects of ice accretion on an aircraft can cause the shape of airfoils and flight control surfaces to change, which… …

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  • 2wing — wing1 [ wıŋ ] noun count *** ▸ 1 part of bird/insect/bat ▸ 2 part of airplane ▸ 3 part of building ▸ 4 part of organization ▸ 5 in sports ▸ 6 wheel cover on car ▸ 7 in a theater ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) one of the parts on a bird, insect, or BAT that… …

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  • 3Ice — This article is about water ice. For the broader concept of ices as used in the planetary sciences, see volatiles. For other uses, see Ice (disambiguation) …

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  • 4Channel 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… …

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  • 599th Air Base Wing — Infobox Military Unit unit name=99th Air Base Wing caption=Emblem of the 99th Air Base Wing dates= 1 June 1942 country=United States allegiance= branch=Air Force type=Rage Operation role= size= command structure=Air Combat Command current… …

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  • 6Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane — The Hewitt Sperry Automatic Airplane was a project undertaken during World War I to develop an aerial torpedo, also called a flying bomb or pilotless aircraft, capable of carrying explosives to its target. It is considered by some to be a… …

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  • 7Fixed-wing aircraft — It is worth noting that the air industry s insurers base their calculations on the number of deaths per journey statistic while the industry itself generally uses the number of deaths per kilometre statistic in press releases. [… …

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  • 8Kite types — Colorful delta wing kite Kites are tethered flying objects which fly by using aerodynamic lift, requiring wind, (or towing), for generation of airflow over the lifting surfaces. Contents 1 Kite …

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  • 9Deicing — An Aeroflot Airbus A330 being de iced at Sheremetyevo International Airport …

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  • 10solids, mechanics of — ▪ physics Introduction       science concerned with the stressing (stress), deformation (deformation and flow), and failure of solid materials and structures.       What, then, is a solid? Any material, fluid or solid, can support normal forces.… …

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