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- ...rt description|Correlation factor comparing drag coefficient with an ideal wing}} ...liptical lift distribution.<ref name=DPR12.6>Raymer, Daniel P., ''Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach'', Section 12.6 (Fourth edition)</ref> ...3 KB (503 words) - 15:12, 27 January 2023
- {{Short description|Aircraft wing shape}} ...30 November 2015)</ref><ref name="dimitriadis">G. Dimitriadis; ''Aircraft Design'' [http://www.ltas-cm3.ulg.ac.be/AERO0023-1/ConceptionAeroAerodynamisme.pdf ...5 KB (819 words) - 05:27, 19 December 2024
- === Yaw Control System<ref>Schmidt, L.V., “Introduction to Aircraft Flight Dynamics”, AIAA, 1998, Pg. 242.</ref> === ...control surface that functions to dampen the Dutch-roll motion and yaw the aircraft. The result is a suppressed yaw rate and more required input from the pilot ...2 KB (382 words) - 20:23, 16 June 2023
- ...vel longitudinal flight, thrust counterbalances drag and lift supports the aircraft's weight. Lift and drag are components of the aerodynamic force.]] ...pplications of steady flight models include aircraft design, assessment of aircraft performance, flight planning, and using steady flight states as the [[mecha ...10 KB (1,607 words) - 07:49, 29 August 2023
- ...the axial flow [[impeller]] and is defined as the ratio of blade [[chord (aircraft)|chord]] length to spacing. [[File:Wing profile nomenclature.svg|500px|thumb|right|Airfoil nomenclature]] ...4 KB (689 words) - 00:42, 5 October 2024
- ...e, using [[Lifting-line theory|Lifting-Line Theory]] for a flat elliptical wing, the lift coefficient is where ''AR'' is the wing's aspect ratio. Note that in the 2D case where ''AR'' → ∞ this reduces to t ...9 KB (1,401 words) - 15:46, 19 October 2024
- ...programme and certification |url=https://www.airbus.com/aircraft/how-is-an-aircraft-built/test-programme-and-certification.html |access-date=2020-02-27}}</ref> ...m coupons through to full size test articles such as [[automobiles]] and [[aircraft]]. ...21 KB (3,222 words) - 23:54, 10 February 2025
- ...of these systems had evolved due to the iterative process inherent to wing design, while the other was best suited for adding to the constraints imposed by m ...his motive, the staff began work toward what became NURBS. The design of a wing demands free-form, C2 continuous, cubic splines to satisfy the needs of aer ...11 KB (1,717 words) - 09:58, 8 February 2025
- ...ements for the models of continuous gusts used in design and simulation of aircraft.<ref name="14CFRPart25">{{cite web|last = 14 CFR Part 25: Appendix G | titl ...vertical turbulence axis is aligned with the [[Flight dynamics (fixed-wing aircraft)#Reference frames|Earth frame]] ''z''-axis, the longitudinal turbulence axi ...12 KB (1,753 words) - 20:12, 10 September 2023
- ...WMPST14268.jpg|thumb|250px|A [[Minister of Aircraft Production|Ministry of Aircraft Production]] poster on aerodynamics]] ...ght brothers|Wilbur and Orville Wright]] flew the first successful powered aircraft. The flight, and the publicity it received, led to more organized collabora ...29 KB (4,358 words) - 09:28, 30 January 2025
- ...''', was a [[Royal Air Force]] (RAF) [[bombsight]] designed for attacks by aircraft flying below {{convert|1000|ft}} altitude. It combined components of the [[ ...use in the post-war era, equipping the [[Avro Shackleton]] throughout that aircraft's lifetime until 1991. ...23 KB (3,799 words) - 01:52, 27 December 2022
- {{Short description|Helicopter design variant}} ...its lift to a [[fixed wing]] reduces [[Drag (physics)|drag]], enabling the aircraft to fly faster. ...39 KB (5,297 words) - 04:18, 28 November 2024
- ...air data. It uses other information such as [[GPS]], wind information, the aircraft's attitude, and [[aerodynamic]] properties to estimate or infer the air dat ...e earlier work used vehicle dynamics models to estimate air data in both [[aircraft]]<ref name="Zeis">{{cite journal ...19 KB (2,648 words) - 01:19, 19 January 2025
- ...t many times wind speed, harvests wind power from an area that exceeds the wing's total area by many times. [[File:US6781254fig1jpg.jpg|thumb|This illustrates where parts of the wing set of a crosswind kite power device is cross winding during conversion of ...34 KB (5,133 words) - 10:23, 8 December 2024
- ...issue=1 |pages=20–30 |doi=10.4050/JAHS.17.1.20}}</ref> Unlike [[fixed-wing aircraft]], of which the [[Stall (fluid dynamics)|stall]] occurs at relatively low f ...ady Pressure Gradient Reduction on Dynamic Stall Delay |journal=Journal of Aircraft |date=October 1971 |volume=8 |issue=10 |pages=839–841 |doi=10.2514/3.59179} ...22 KB (3,250 words) - 22:21, 8 September 2024
- ...peller]]s. A propeller is the most common propulsor on ships, and on small aircraft. ...h a counterweight have also been used. Lightly loaded propellers for light aircraft and human-powered boats mostly have two blades, motor boats mostly have thr ...16 KB (2,640 words) - 17:34, 5 December 2024
- In June 1939, Kurt Patt of [[Klaus Riedel]]'s design office at Peenemünde proposed wings for converting rocket speed and altitud ...te developments, as opposed to the upper and lower stages of a single ICBM design. He also states that the A-4b was the SLBM development, as opposed to the w ...22 KB (3,194 words) - 18:20, 23 February 2025
- ...security considerations or bureaucratic obstacles. For example, the first design of [[magnetic resonance imaging]] was proposed by [[Vladislav Ivanov (physi {{main|Aircraft industry of Russia|United Aircraft Corporation|List of Russian aerospace engineers}} ...35 KB (4,793 words) - 01:13, 7 November 2024
- ...nese alloys|aluminium-manganese alloys]]). The main area of application is aircraft construction. The alloys have medium to high strength and can be [[Precipit ...s led to the introduction of duralumin in 1909.<ref>J. Dwight. ''Aluminium Design and Construction''. Routledge, 1999.</ref> The name is mainly used in [[Pop ...38 KB (4,879 words) - 03:07, 12 January 2025
- ...|title = Aerodynamics of wind turbines : a physical basis for analysis and design |publisher = Wiley |location = Hoboken |year = 2019 |page=35 |isbn = 978111 ...ake the lift based results comparable to the drag results, the area of the wing section was used to non-dimensionalize power. The results here could be int ...34 KB (5,411 words) - 13:11, 8 February 2025