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unswept or swept. The
straight tapered wing is one of the most
common wing
planforms, as seen on the
Messerschmitt Bf 109.
Inverse or
reverse tapered: wing...
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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...
- The
planform view of a
Boeing 777-300ER, with
raked wingtips...
- led to the
Hawker P.96, an
unbuilt design with a
relatively conventional planform,
including a
separate tail structure, in the late 1970s. Simultaneously...
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Bureau in the
Soviet Union. Its
nicknames include: "Balalaika",
because its
planform resembles the
stringed musical instrument of the same name; "Ołówek", Polish...
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Doppeltaube biplane which used the same
basic planform. A
variety of
other biplanes, with more
conventional wing
planforms were also
built and flown. In 1912, five...
- The
delta had
already been used on aircraft, but
these designs used
planforms that were not much
different from a
swept wing of the same span. Weber...
- handling,
manoeuvrability and
centre of
gravity range over a pure
delta planform. The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 ("Fishbed")
became the most
widely built combat...
- 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...
- (For
wings with
planforms that are not rectangular, the
aspect ratio is
calculated as the
square of the span
divided by the wing
planform area.)
Wings with...
