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invented flexible un-sparred ram-air airfoiled thick wings. These two new branches of wings have been since extensively studied and applied in new branches of aircraft, especially altering the personal recreational aviation landscape.
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aircraft as they provide practical performance whether the aircraft is upright or inverted. Another example comes from sailboats, where the sail is a thin membrane with no path-length difference between one side and the other.
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Aircraft wings may have various devices, such as flaps or slats that the pilot uses to modify the shape and surface area of the wing to change its operating characteristics in flight.
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on the upper surface to disrupt the lift and to provide additional traction to an aircraft that has just landed but is still moving.
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supported by inflated or rigid struts, which ushered in new possibilities for aircraft. Near that time,
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or "swing wings" that allow outstretched wings during low-speed flight (i.e., take-off and landing) and
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The design and analysis of the wings of aircraft is one of the principal applications of the science of
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Thus, the generation of lift does not require different distances around the upper and lower surfaces.
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to keep flow attached to the wing by stopping boundary layer separation from spreading roll direction.
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mitigate flow separation at low speeds and high angles of attack, especially over control surfaces.
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is the governing science, rather than aerodynamics. Applications of underwater foils occur in
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Laitone, E. V. (1997). "Wind tunnel tests of wings at Reynolds numbers below 70 000".
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Semi-span full-scale tests of a business-jet wing with a natural laminar flow airfoil
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as vertical wings with variable fullness and direction to move across water.
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are avid swimmers using their wings to propel themselves through water.
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on the wing. A high lift-to-drag ratio requires a significantly smaller
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Condensation in the low pressure region over the wing of an
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to deflect air downward. Symmetrical airfoils have higher
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allow more aircraft storage in the confined space of the
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For many centuries, the word "wing", from the Old Norse
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to propel the wings through the air at sufficient lift.
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