- the object. The
outline of a
shape in this view is
sometimes called its
planform, for
example with
aircraft wings. The plan view from
above a
building is...
- The wing
configuration or
planform of a fixed-wing
aircraft (including both
gliders and
powered aeroplanes) is its
arrangement of
lifting and
related surfaces...
- handling,
manoeuvrability and
centre of
gravity range over a pure
delta planform. The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 ("Fishbed")
became the most
widely built combat...
-
Wings are
defined by two
shape characteristics, an
airfoil section and a
planform. Wing
efficiency is
expressed as lift-to-drag ratio,
which compares the...
- were developed, Trapeze, a
series of
wires and
ferrite beads around the
planform of the aircraft, a
covering material with PCB
circuitry embedded in it...
-
Mantle convection is the very slow
creep of Earth's
solid silicate mantle as
convection currents carry heat from the
interior to the planet's surface....
-
Dietrich Küchemann at the RAE
published a
series of
reports on a new wing
planform,
known in the UK as the "slender delta". The team,
including Eric Maskell...
-
having an
elliptic leaf
shape of
aircraft wings,
having an
elliptical planform characterised by
ellipsis (the
omission of words), or by
concision more...
-
Bureau in the
Soviet Union. Its
nicknames include: "Balalaika",
because its
planform resembles the
stringed musical instrument of the same name; "Ołówek", Polish...
- led to the
Hawker P.96, an
unbuilt design with a
relatively conventional planform,
including a
separate tail structure, in the late 1970s. Simultaneously...
