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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...
- 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...
- handling,
manoeuvrability and
centre of
gravity range over a pure
delta planform. The
resulting TsAGI S-12
airfoil was used in the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21...
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elliptical planform because there is a
logarithmic term in the lift
distribution that
becomes important near the wing tips.
Elliptical wing
planforms are more...
- (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...
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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....
- 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...
-
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...
