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List of experimental aircraft (3,028 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

– Delta wing research aircraft Nord 1500 Griffon – Ramjet Nord 1601 – Swept wing research aircraft Payen PA-22 – Tandem delta/normal wings Payen Pa 49

PZL Bielsko SZD-50 Puchacz (619 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The PZL Bielsko SZD-50 Puchacz (Polish: "eagle owl") is a Polish two-place training and aerobatic sailplane. The Puchacz was designed by Dipl-Ing Adam

Hawker Aircraft (1,241 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

wing idea Hawker P.1058 Hawker P.1061 dual engine straight wing Hawker P.1062 swept wing derivative of P1040 Hawker P.1063 Hawker P.1064 swept wing idea

SZD-40x Halny (657 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The SZD-40x Halny is an experimental two-seat glider designed and built in Poland in 1971. Spurred on by the high performance two seaters emerging from

OKB-1 EF 131 (768 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Versuchs – test/research/prototype) of the Luftwaffe's radical forward-swept-wing jet bomber. The V2 was nearly complete before the end of World War 2,

OKB-1 140 (775 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The OKB-1 '140', (sometimes known as '001') was a jet bomber produced in the USSR from 1947. The '140' was a reconnaissance/bomber aircraft, derived from

Williams V-Jet II (495 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the plane. The V-Jet II was an all-composite structure with a forward-swept wing, a V-tail, each fin of which was mounted on the nacelle of one of the

IIL IS-8 (726 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The IIL IS-8 was a two-seat sailplane designed by Iosif Șilimon and built in Romania in 1960. They served with Romanian gliding clubs. From about 1950

ICA IS-32 (325 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The ICA IS-32 is an open class high-performance metal two-seat sailplane produced in Romania in the 1970s. A refinement of the IS-28B, it shared most of

Cessna NGP (959 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Cessna Next Generation Propeller Aircraft (NGP) was a proof-of-concept design for a future family of single engine, fixed-gear, high cantilever wing

Tupolev Tu-82 (257 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Tupolev Tu-82 was a 1940s Soviet experimental swept-wing bomber. It was the first Soviet jet bomber with swept wings. Similar to the earlier Tupolev

List of German aircraft projects, 1939–1945 (4,926 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Arado E.381 III - Parasite fighter Arado E.385 Arado E.390 Arado E.395 Swept wing jet bomber (Reference: German Air Projects vol. 3 1935-1945, Marek Rys)

Malmö MFI-9 Junior (1,118 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Malmö Flygindustri MFI-9 Junior was a light aircraft produced in Sweden in the 1960s. The aircraft was also produced under licence in West Germany

Bell X-2 (2,002 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

characteristics in the Mach 2–3 range. The X-2 was a rocket-powered, swept-wing research aircraft developed jointly in 1945 by Bell Aircraft Corporation

LET L-23 Super Blaník (641 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The LET L-23 Super Blaník is a two-seat, all-metal structure glider with fabric covered control surfaces. The aircraft is primarily used for flight training;

Junkers EF 128 (457 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

design competition during the Second World War. The EF 128 was a tailless swept-wing design and was to have been powered by a Heinkel HeS 011 turbojet and

Dunne D.5 (829 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dunne D.5 was a British experimental aircraft built in 1910. A tailless swept-wing biplane, it was designed by J. W. Dunne and built by Short Brothers at

Pilatus SB-2 (859 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Pilatus SB-2 Pelican was a civil utility aircraft developed by a purposely founded development bureau at the ETH Zurich on behalf of the Federal Air

Piasecki X-49 SpeedHawk (957 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The "SpeedHawk" aircraft includes an SPU (third engine), high forward-swept wing concept, a 45-inch "fuselage plug" cabin extension, and several other

Mitsubishi F-1 (1,375 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Mitsubishi F-1 is a Japanese swept-wing, single-seat, twin-engine supersonic strike aircraft that was in service with the Japan Air Self-Defense Force

Cessna Citation Columbus (778 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

400 km) range, the $27 million aircraft had a 709 sq ft (66 m2), 30° swept wing. Cessna began research on the largest Citation in 2002 with market studies

Thornton Wilson (413 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Wilson joined Boeing in 1943 and worked on bomber programs, notably the swept-wing B-47 Stratojet and B-52 Stratofortress, and also led the proposal team

Vortex lift (881 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sweptback, sharp, leading edges (beyond 50 degrees of sweep) or highly-swept wing-root extensions added to a wing of moderate sweep. It is sometimes known

Lippisch P.13 (232 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Josef Hubert. Of highly unconventional configuration, it was a tail-less, swept-wing design with an engine and propeller mounted at both the front and rear

Mikoyan-Gurevich I-75 (772 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mikoyan-Gurevich I-75 was the final design of a series of three experimental swept-wing interceptors developed in the Soviet Union in the mid-late 1950s by the

CZAW Parrot (551 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The CZAW Parrot, also called the CSA Parrot, is a Czech light-sport aircraft that was designed and produced by Czech Aircraft Works, now Czech Sport Aircraft

Aviasud Mistral (552 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Aviasud Mistral is a French two-seat ultralight biplane built by Aviasud Engineering. This plane is notable as it has forward swept wings and side-by-side

LFU 205 (581 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The LFU 205 is a single-engined, four-seat, low-wing monoplane, that was built in the late 1960s entirely from glass reinforced plastic. The Leichflugtechnik-Union

North American FJ-4 Fury (1,489 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The North American FJ-4 Fury is a swept-wing carrier-capable fighter-bomber for the United States Navy and Marine Corps. The final development in a lineage

DFS 346 (1,715 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The DFS 346 (Samolyot 346) was a German rocket-powered swept-wing aircraft which began development during World War II in Germany. It was designed by Felix

Rutan Long-EZ (1,823 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Burt Rutan's Rutan Aircraft Factory. The Long-EZ has a canard layout, a swept wing with wingtip rudders, and a pusher engine and propeller. The tricycle

Bell P-63 Kingcobra (5,507 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Number 12, 1945, Chapter 6. Retrieved: 17 July 2011. Baugher, Joe. "Swept-wing L-39". Joe Baugher's Encyclopedia of American Military Aircraft, 18 September

General Aircraft GAL.56 (898 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

General Aircraft GAL.56 was a family of 1940s British experimental tailless swept wing glider designs. In July 1943, the Tailless Aircraft Advisory Committee

LFG Roland Pfeilflieger (684 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The LFG Roland Pfeilflieger, (Arrow-flyer), was a German swept wing, single engine, two seat biplane built in Germany in 1914. It made one distinguished

Kayaba Ku-2 (213 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the Kayaba Industry's chief designer Shigeki Naito, the Ku-2 had a swept wing with two vertical fins at the end of the wings. The Ku-2 flew 262 test

Short Sperrin (2,596 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

experienced delays; the Sperrin was not put into production because these swept-wing designs, such as the Vickers Valiant, were by then available. As their

Dunne D.7 (896 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Dunne D.7 was one of J. W. Dunne's swept wing tailless aircraft designed to have automatic stability, first flying in 1911. It was a single seat, single

Kayaba Ku-2 (213 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the Kayaba Industry's chief designer Shigeki Naito, the Ku-2 had a swept wing with two vertical fins at the end of the wings. The Ku-2 flew 262 test

764 Naval Air Squadron (2,965 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

squadrons primary duty was Air Warfare Instructor training. It also undertook swept wing conversion to the Hawker Hunter. From March to November 1965 a ‘B’ flight

Waldo Waterman (838 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

pioneer from San Diego, California. He developed a series of tailless swept-wing aircraft incorporating tricycle landing gear, culminating in a low-cost

Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket (2,753 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The goals of the program were to investigate the characteristics of swept-wing aircraft at transonic and supersonic speeds with particular attention

Kayaba Ku-4 (216 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

however, the Ku-4 was to be powered by a pusher engine. It had a low, swept wing, and like the Ku-2, fins at the wingtips. Work on the prototype was well

UFM Easy Riser (650 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The UFM Easy Riser is an American swept wing biplane hang glider that was first powered in 1975, becoming the first modern ultralight aircraft. The Easy

Autopilot (2,889 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Because Dutch roll is an instability that is inherent in all swept-wing aircraft, most swept-wing aircraft need some sort of yaw damper. There are two types

Cornelius Mallard (363 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Cornelius Mallard was a single-engined light aircraft of very unusual configuration, tailless and with a swept forward wing of variable incidence.

Ginn-Lesniak Kestrel (430 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Ginn-Lesniak Kestrel is a one-off homebuilt two seat sailplane, designed in the United Kingdom in the 1950s and flown in 1969. Though the sole Kestrel

Hamburger Flugzeugbau HFB 314 (440 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

steadily, HFB abandoned the project in 1960. The HFB 314 was a conventional swept-wing monoplane intended as a 70-78 seat short-to-medium range jet airliner

Hawker P.1052 (854 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

centrifugally powered, straight-winged Sea Hawk to the axially powered, swept-wing Hunter. The P.1078 – a variant in which the P.1052 was to have been augmented

American Airpower Museum (1,083 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

include a Republic F-84 first generation jet fighter, a rare example of the swept-wing RF-84F reconnaissance variant, and a Republic F-105 Thunderchief. The

Arsenal de l'Aéronautique (461 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

one-seat high-wing swept-wing jet experimental aircraft. One built Arsenal VG 80 Arsenal VG 90 (1949) Single-engine one-seat high-wing swept-wing carrier-based

Gnats (disambiguation) (87 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Nematocera GNATS, the GNU bug tracking system Folland Gnat, a small, swept-wing British subsonic jet trainer and light fighter aircraft first flown in

Aircraft 140 (133 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

registration tail number 140 Aircraft models OKB-1 140, a Soviet forward-swept-wing jet prototype Agusta GA.140 Amiot 140 Antonov An-140 ANF Les Mureaux 140T

Klebanoff–Saric Wind Tunnel (142 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

laminar-turbulent boundary layer transition by means of flat-plate and swept-wing experiments. Measurement techniques used include hotwire anemometry, infrared

Jet fighter generations (2,106 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

jet development, up to 2004, into five stages; pioneer (straight wing), swept wing, transonic, the 1960s and 1970s on, culminating in types such as the F-15

VF-124 (1,299 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

flight training squadrons, itself necessary because of introduction of swept wing fighters into Navy service. In 1961, the squadron relocated to NAS Miramar

Arsenal 2301 (656 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

proposed rocket powered fighter aircraft which developed German ideas on swept wing aircraft expressed in the wartime DFS 346. It was a wooden aircraft, with

Aériane Swift (891 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

but the firm is now the sole manufacturer. The Swift (an acronym for 'Swept Wing with Inboard Flap for Trim') was originally conceived as a rigid hang

List of aircraft (X) (179 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

XtremeAir Sbach 300 XtremeAir Sbach 342 XtremeAir Sbach X42 X-29 Forward Swept Wing Jet Gordon, Yefim; Dmitry Komissarov (2008). Chinese Aircraft:China's

Republic Aviation (2,474 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

important aircraft during the Korean War, flying 86,408 missions. In 1949, a swept-wing version, the F-84F Thunderstreak, was developed but additional development

North American FJ Fury (202 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

fighter model, 31 produced. It formed the basis for the development of the swept-wing F-86 Sabre. The FJ-1 was powered by the Allison J35-A-2. North American

De Havilland Venom (4,401 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

centrifugal flow engines such as the Gloster Meteor and the Vampire – and later swept wing, axial flow-engined combat aircraft, such as the Hawker Hunter and de

RAF Woodbridge (2,274 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

missions continued until 1964. In 1955, the 79th was upgraded to the swept-wing F-84F Thunderstreak, with the older "G" models being transferred to other

Aircraft fairing (794 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

necessary sideways movement of the extending mechanism which occurs on swept-wing installations. Spinner To protect and streamline the propeller hub. Strut-to-wing

Dassault Mystère IV (1,755 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

continued in use into the 1980s. The Mystère IV became Israel's first swept-wing fighter when an order for Mystère IIs was changed to 24 Mystère IVs in

Boundary layer control (1,196 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

flow control (HLFC) refers to swept wing technology in which LFC is applied only to the leading edge region of a swept wing and NLF aft of that. NASA-sponsored

Hawker P.1081 (636 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

all-weather design by CAC. Hawker Aircraft also submitted a proposal, for a swept-wing, swept-tail fighter based on the Hawker P.1052, but using a Rolls-Royce

List of Mikoyan and MiG aircraft (898 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

derivative of I-350, powered by Mikulin AM-5 engines, 1952 MiG I-370/I-1 - swept-wing supersonic fighter prototype, 1955 MiG I-3 family - fighter prototypes

George Welch (pilot) (2,916 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

of the XP-86 to a 35-degree, swept-wing configuration. This was new technology and the USA's first high-speed, swept-wing airplane and a significant advance

Heinkel P.1080 (253 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

aircraft would have been tailless, with the elevators built in to the swept wing, which was based on that of the Heinkel P.1078, and would have had a single

Blohm & Voss P 198 (278 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

large-calibre cannon with proximity-fused shells and two smaller 20 mm cannon. A swept-wing derivative with higher performance was planned, but the project was shelved

Hamburger Flugzeugbau (2,524 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

highly original bomber and fighter designs, including a series of tailless swept-wing fighters which culminated in an order for three prototypes of the jet-powered

Blohm & Voss P 188 (829 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Blohm & Voss had been studying the swept wing and its associated problems such as aeroelasticity. As a swept wing bends under aerodynamic loads, its angle

Wolfgang Liebe (348 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

span-wise airflow along the wing, and are widely used specifically in early swept-wing designs. Raised in Cottbus, Germany, Liebe attended the University of

301st Air Refueling Wing (1,277 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Superfortress. Replaced the propeller-driven B-29s with new B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers in 1953, capable of flying at high subsonic speeds and

Fighter-bomber (5,183 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

attack on Pusan. All changed when the Soviet Air Force intervened with swept-wing Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15s flown by Russian pilots on November 1. The planes

F9 (229 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Panther, a United States Navy fighter aircraft Grumman F-9 Cougar, a swept wing version of the F9F Panther LSWR F9 class, British locomotives of the Southern

Artem Mikoyan (1,343 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

swept-wing Soviet aircraft design of any type in 1945, the strictly experimental Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-8 Utka canard pusher monoplane, the swept-wing research

List of United States Air Force Aerospace Defense Command Interceptor Squadrons (1,670 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

nasty surprise. It was soon apparent that the F-80C was no match for the swept-wing MiG-15, being almost 100 mph slower than its Russian-built opponent. F-80s

List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS (229 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

interceptor developed from attack Su-6. Sukhoi Su-7 < 200 1956–? Fitter-A Swept-wing 'Fitter' model. Sukhoi Su-9 < 1,100 1959-1970 Fishpot-A/B Sukhoi Su-11

Bobrovka (air base) (523 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Lockheed U-2 overflights. A 1974 US satellite mission identified up to 89 swept-wing aircraft, most of which were likely Sukhoi Su-9 (NATO: Fishpot) aircraft

Canadian Aviation Corps (492 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the Canadian Air Force in 1918. One Burgess-Dunne two-seater tailless swept-wing pusher floatplane built by Blair-Atholl Syndicate Limited of England.

Martin Knutson (520 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

leadership for numerous flight research projects including the X-29 forward-swept-wing technology demonstrator; the Controlled Impact Demonstration, the F-15

Sopwith Swallow (588 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Swallow used the fuselage of a Camel, but it had a larger, slightly swept, wing of greater wingspan and area, which was mounted higher above the fuselage

Škoda-Kauba (790 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

rudder and flew after a fashion. The V2 was similar to the V1 but had a swept wing, reducing the length of the mounting booms, but its performance was little

Focke-Wulf Fw 260 (375 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

show in 1962. The aircraft's design included a high-mounted, slightly swept wing, carrying two two-engined pods for jet engines providing primary thrust

Raytheon T-1 Jayhawk (817 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

under the 1962 United States Tri-Service aircraft designation system. The swept-wing T-1A is a military version of the Beechjet/Hawker 400A. It has cockpit

Fábrica Argentina de Aviones (1,028 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Chingolo 1 Tourism/Trainer aircraft 1950 FMA I.Ae.33 Pulqui II 5 First swept-wing jet fighter designed in Latin America 1949 FMA I.Ae.34 Clen Antú 7 Flying

Convair X-6 (1,066 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

aircraft would have been based on the successor to the B-36, Convair's swept-wing B-60. The X-6 would have been powered by General Electric X-39 engines

Fury (799 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

aircraft North American FJ-2/-3 Fury, 1950s U.S. Navy and Marine Corps swept-wing jet aircraft North American FJ-4 Fury, a 1950s/60s U.S. Navy and Marine

Canard (aeronautics) (4,080 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

flew for some years, being used as a testbed during development of the swept wing of the (conventional layout) MiG-15 jet fighter. With the arrival of the

Cessna Citation II (2,889 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

before certification in July. It gained a supercritical airfoil with swept wing roots, aileron and flap gap seals, and a fluid deicing system instead

Handley Page (3,319 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

72 – military transport project to Spec. C.15/45 HP.72A – four-engine swept wing jet bomber project; led to HP.80 Victor HP.73 Hastings C.III – transport

Nord 1601 (338 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

high-lift devices. The 1601 was a cantilever mid-wing monoplane with a 33° swept wing. The wing was fitted with ailerons, spoilers, leading edge slats and trailing

303rd Aeronautical Systems Wing (1,014 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nov 1952. Replaced the propeller-driven B-29s with new B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers in 1953, capable of flying at high subsonic speeds and

Akaflieg München Mü31 (355 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

wing in midwing configuration (conventional). high-mounted wing with a swept wing root/fuselage transition. high-mounted wing with turbulent flow at the

Flying wing (4,389 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

consequently have, at best, marginal stability. The aspect ratio of a swept wing as seen in the direction of the airflow depends on the yaw angle relative

WNF Wn 16 (600 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

built in the late 1930s for tricycle undercarriage research. It was a swept wing tandem two-seater, with a pusher configuration engine and twin-boom fuselage

Blohm & Voss P.202 (381 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

speeds attainable by jet aeroplanes led German workers to develop the swept wing, in order to minimise the problems met as the speed of sound was approached

No. 118 Squadron RAF (1,334 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

discarded its Venoms in March that year when it moved to RAF Jever, operating swept-wing Hawker Hunters in the pure day-fighter role. It kept the Hunters until

Handley Page HP.88 (832 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

changed to the Supermarine Swift which had already been redesigned with a swept wing. In the event, the many changes led Supermarine to give the design its

Akaflieg München Mü5 Wastl (354 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the students designed and built the Mü5 Wastl, consisting of a highly swept wing, mounted on a pylon above a streamlined fuselage pod, and wingtip panels

Trevor Sidney Wade (1,879 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1948 S.B.A.C. air race at Lympne, flying a Hawker Fury. Hawker's first swept wing jet was the P.1052; Wade made the maiden flight of the first of the two

Johanna Weber (1,481 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

proposed in response. Küchemann had kept abreast of German work into swept-wing aircraft, in particular the crescent-shaped wing, and the aerodynamics

Grumman G-118 (578 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

carrier-based all-weather supersonic fighter aircraft. It had a 45° swept wing, a "T-tail" empennage, two small folding ventral fins, and a landing gear

VMAT-203 (425 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

TF-9J "Cougar", and the T-33 Shooting Star, and conducted training in swept-wing refresher/ transition, instrument procedures, and instrument ground school

Leading-edge extension (879 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

zig-zag break in the leading edge of a wing. It is usually used on a swept wing, to generate a vortex flow field to prevent separated flow from progressing

Rockwell B-1 Lancer (12,741 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to full sweep). Forward-swept wing settings are used for takeoff, landings and high-altitude economical cruise. Aft-swept wing settings are used in high

VFA-113 (1,942 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

upgraded to the F9F-2. In May 1955, the squadron again upgraded to the swept wing F9F-8 Cougar and in March 1956 was redesignated Attack Squadron One Hundred

Yakovlev Yak-30 (1948) (707 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

and service ceiling was increased by 1,000 m (3,281 ft). However, the swept wing was found to be unsatisfactory with poor aileron authority. Although the

Aerola Alatus (464 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

is made from composites. Its 13.1 m (43.0 ft) span, slightly forward-swept wing has an area of 13.2 m2 (142 sq ft). The landing gear is of a bicycle design

Bréguet 1100 (582 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

entirely from bonded alloy and included many honeycomb structures. Its swept wing was about 15% greater in span and 35% greater in area than that of the

308th Armament Systems Wing (1,533 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Superfortresses. Those aircraft were then replaced with new Boeing B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium jet bombers in 1954, capable of flying at high subsonic speeds

Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft (1,090 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

passenger transport project Armstrong Whitworth A.W.58 – advanced 59° swept wing Mach 1.2 research aircraft project Armstrong Whitworth A.W.59 – variable

Northrop P-61 Black Widow (13,649 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

dropping recoverable swept-wing test bodies as part of a National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics program to test swept-wing aerodynamics. NACA test

BAC TSR-2 (9,338 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

considerably similar to the final TSR-2, although it used a mid-mounted swept wing instead of top-mounted delta. It is otherwise very similar to the EE submission

Vortex generator (1,452 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

include the ST Aerospace A-4SU Super Skyhawk and Symphony SA-160. For swept-wing transonic designs, VGs alleviate potential shock-stall problems (e.g.

List of aircraft (R) (6,629 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

mixed-power ground attack version of the P-47 Republic AP-54 single-engine, swept-wing all-weather interceptor; "1954 Interceptor" (MX1554) submission Republic

SAI Ambrosini (169 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ambrosini S.1002 Trasimeno General aviation Ambrosini Sagittario 1953 1 Experimental swept wing jet design Ambrosini Rondone 1951 20 General aviation

Stall (fluid dynamics) (7,356 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

cause stalling at the tip of a wing before the root. The position of a swept wing along the fuselage has to be such that the lift from the wing root, well

Hawker Nimrod (1,440 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rolls-Royce Kestrel IIMS piston engine; 57 built. Nimrod II FAA: modified swept-wing version, powered by a 608 hp (453 kW) Rolls-Royce Kestrel IIS or VFp piston

USAF units and aircraft of the Korean War (3,310 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the Soviet MiG-15s. However, the swept-wing F-86 Sabre proved more effective, bringing a new generation of swept-wing aircraft into the USAF arsenal in

Connecticut Air National Guard (1,813 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

equipped with experimental Curtiss OX-12's with rotary engines and a swept-wing design. The squadron, or elements thereof, called up to perform the following

Teichfuss Astore (474 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Falke it was intended as a secondary or intermediate trainer, its swept wing bringing intrinsic stability and safety for the inexperienced pilot. The

Society of British Aerospace Companies (1,404 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Sherpa experimental aero-isoclinic wing research aircraft. Short S.B.5 A swept wing research aircraft for development of the English Electric Lightning. Shorts

Jet aircraft (2,771 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

evident today for example with the 737 (fuselage) and A340 (single deck, swept wing, four below-wing engines). Turbofan aircraft with far greater fuel efficiency

F84 (79 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Thunderjet, an early American straight-wing jet fighter F-84F Thunderstreak, a swept-wing development of the Thunderjet XF-84H Thunderscreech, a turboprop variant

407th Air Expeditionary Group (1,423 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

straight-winged F-84Gs to AMARC, and was re-equipped with newer and faster swept-wing F-84F Thunderstreaks. From Great Falls, the 407th provided long-range

Cessna Citation V (2,164 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

development of the Citation S/II, retaining the supercritical airfoil and swept wing roots of that aircraft, but with a 1.5 ft (0.46 m) fuselage stretch and

506th Air Expeditionary Group (1,846 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

January 1954 becoming the first SAC fighter wing to be equipped with the swept-wing model. The wing remained at Dow for just over a year until being reassigned

Alexander Soldenhoff (330 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

twentieth century. After the end of WWI he determined to develop a tailless swept-wing "safety aeroplane" after the manner of designs already produced from 1909

Aviation in Hawaii (650 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Tours starts flights between islands in a five-seat Ryan modified from a swept-wing standard. 1927 The Dole Air Derby challenged aviators to fly from Oakland

Baynes Bat (525 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was for a 100 ft wingspan "Carrier Wing Glider" consisting chiefly of a swept wing with vertical stabilizers on the wingtips. A 1/3 scale prototype was built

VFA-192 (2,438 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Famous Golden Dragons." On 19 January 1956, the squadron upgraded to the swept-wing F9F-6 Cougar and their mission changed to include the aircraft's ground

MAKS (air show) (1,197 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Tricolori. Some highlights include: The first public unveiling of the forward-swept-wing S-37 (later Su-47) Berkut at MAKS-1999. The handling of the corporate

F9F (59 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

F9F Panther jet fighter (straight wing) Grumman F9F Cougar jet fighter (swept wing development of the Panther) This disambiguation page lists articles associated

Mikoyan-Gurevich I-320 (681 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mikoyan-Gurevich design, was like the other two competing aircraft, a twin-engined swept-wing aircraft, with the fuselage housing the engines in tandem, with one at

Stabilizer (aeronautics) (2,402 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

for hang gliders, means that no fin is needed. Stabilization. When a swept wing is rotated in yaw the outer wing sweep is reduced, so increasing drag

Mikoyan-Gurevich I-7 (1,803 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

supersonic interceptor aircraft of all-metal construction with a mid-mounted swept wing and swept tail. The long slender fuselage had a circular cross-section

1989 in aviation (2,535 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

last Grumman X-29, American experimental aircraft that tested a forward-swept wing, canard control surfaces, and other novel aircraft technologies. May 26

Afterburner (2,615 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

at 8,000 lbf (36 kN) thrust with afterburners, would power the Grumman swept-wing fighter F9F-6, which was about to go into production. Other new Navy fighters

Yakovlev Yak-40 (2,455 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Allied-Signal) Lycoming. The original design would have had a slightly swept wing. Yak-40 Liros – Military conversion with nose probe carrying air-data

Mikoyan-Gurevich I-3 (776 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the I-1 and the cockpit was positioned further ahead of the 60 degree swept wing. Armament consisted of three 30 mm Nudelman-Richter NR-30 cannon, each

Stealth Mission (182 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

three different aircraft to pilot: the F-19 Stealth Fighter, the X-29 Swept Wing, and the F-14 Tomcat. Brad Bombardiere reviewed the game for Computer

VF-194 (549 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Western Pacific. In 1954 the squadron exchanged their Panthers for the swept wing Grumman F9F-6 Cougar. Between 11 May 1954 and 12 December 1954 VF-91 circumnavigated

Lavochkin La-15 (1,071 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

on the Rolls-Royce Nene in response to a 1946 request for an advanced swept-wing jet fighter capable of transonic performance. The engine was placed behind

179th Cyberspace Wing (2,317 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

storage at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona and received new F-84F Thunderstreak swept-wing interceptors. Later in 1957, the 164th Fighter-Bomber Squadron received

Republic XF-84H Thunderscreech (1,937 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Press. ISBN 978-1-58007-111-6. Keaveney, Kevin (1987). Republic F-84 (Swept-Wing Variants). Arlington, TX: Aerofax. ISBN 0-942548-20-5. Wilkinson, Stephan

Saab 91 Safir (1,496 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The first prototype was used as a platform for low speed testing of the swept wing for Saab 29 jet fighter, and was later further modified to test the wing

Teichfuss Cicogna (555 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

by Alexander Lippisch. Lippisch had developed that conventional, but swept wing, glider from the 1929 RRG Storch IV, the most successful of his early

Joseph Smith (aircraft designer) (846 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Navy. Following the Attacker he oversaw the design of the Type 510 a swept-wing jet fighter which was developed into the Supermarine Swift. Following

Belyayev Babochka (298 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

research aircraft to investigate the properties of Belyayev's forward swept wing with raked tips, used on the Belyayev DB-LK, particularly the resistance

Westland-Hill Pterodactyl (1,564 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

wing and helped Short Brothers develop the Short SB.1 and SB.4 tailless swept-wing test aircraft. Hill's Pterodactyl designs were all intended to handle

Luke Air Force Base (6,888 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Crew Training Wing" to describe its mission better. In January 1954, the swept-wing F-84F Thunderstreak began to arrive, and three additional dedicated squadrons

Leduc 0.10 (719 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The larger Leduc 0.21 flew from an air launch on 16 May 1953, and the swept wing supersonic Leduc 0.22 interceptor began testing on 26 December 1956 with

22nd Air Refueling Wing (2,268 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

wing re-equipped the propeller-driven B-29s with new B-47E Stratojet swept-wing bomber medium bombers in 1953, capable of flying at high subsonic speeds

Yakovlev Yak-25 (1947) (1,158 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

improved results. Worse yet, both its rivals, the Lavochkin La-15 and rival swept-wing MiG-15 had superior performance, with the MiG-15 selected for mass production

Relaxed stability (1,123 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

High Altitude and Center of Gravity on The Handling Characteristics of Swept-wing Commercial Airplanes". Aero Magazine. 1 (2). Boeing. Retrieved 29 June

RAF Chilbolton (1,680 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Supermarine Scimitar were developed there as well as many early experimental swept-wing jet fighters. The airfield was also used for some location filming of

19th Airlift Wing (2,190 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

propeller-driven B-29s were replaced with new Boeing B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers capable of flying at high subsonic speeds and primarily

FMA IAe 33 Pulqui II (4,752 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

had won the 1945 German Emergency Fighter Competition. The diminutive, swept-wing, jet-powered Ta 183, designed by Focke-Wulf engineer/designer Hans Multhopp

310th Space Wing (1,759 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

wing replaced the propeller-driven B-29s with new Boeing B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers in 1954, capable of flying at high subsonic speeds and

158th Airlift Squadron (2,203 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

re-designated as the 158th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron and converted the swept-wing F-84F Thunderstreak in March 1957. On 10 July 1958 the 165th Fighter Interceptor

Blue Angels (10,516 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pensacola, Florida that winter, and it was here they progressed to the swept-wing Grumman F9F-8 Cougar. In December, the team left its home base for its

164th Airlift Squadron (2,477 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

storage at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona and received new F-84F Thunderstreak swept-wing interceptors. Later in 1957, the 164th Fighter-Bomber Squadron received

Waterman Arrowbile (1,207 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

was the unofficially named Waterman Whatsit, a pusher configuration low swept-wing monoplane with fins near its wing tips. The Whatsit also featured a wing-mounted

Israel Aerospace Industries (2,944 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

began in the late 1970s by stretching the fuselage and designing a new swept wing, with the first prototype flight occurring on 19 March 1984. The first

44th Missile Wing (2,679 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Reconnaissance Wing. Replaced the propeller-driven B-29s with new B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers in 1953, capable of flying at high subsonic speeds and

Lavochkin La-160 (566 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

as a fighter, Aircraft 160 was intended for research into high-speed swept-wing flight, of which little was known in the mid-1940s - only the 1945-era

Morane-Saulnier MS.180 (824 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and metal and, apart from the forward fuselage, is fabric covered. Its swept wing has metal spars and ailerons but wooden ribs. It is carried over the fuselage

Panavia Aircraft GmbH (785 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

In swept wing configuration

Dassault Super Mystère (994 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

two Super Mystère B.4 prototypes were built. Equipped with a new 48° swept wing and a more powerful SNECMA Atar 9B engine, the aircraft were capable of

Dassault Hirondelle (597 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

an all-metal low-wing monoplane with swept vertical tail and slightly swept wing and tailplane, supported on a retractable tricycle undercarriage, with

List of most-produced aircraft (1,052 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Thunderjet M Jet fighter-bomber 7,524 United States 1946 1953 Excludes swept-wing F-84F / RF-84F derivatives. Douglas DB-7 (A-20 Havoc) M Multirole 7,478

SIAI-Marchetti (2,106 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

226 - 22 passenger business jet project (1980s) SIAI-Marchetti S.229 - swept-wing canard twin engine jet aircraft project, enlarged version of S.226 (1980s)

307th Bomb Wing (2,662 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

It replaced the propeller-driven B-29s with new Boeing B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers in 1955, capable of flying at high subsonic speeds and

HAL HJT 39 (620 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Among the prominent External design features revealed were a moderately-swept wing, with no wing-body blending or wing root strakes, a prominent vertical

Hallmark Guitars (176 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

short-lived existence, the company produced a series of guitars called the "Swept Wing," a rather "bizarre instrument," its only model. It first appeared as

List of Blohm & Voss aircraft (328 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

196 Jet Attack 1944 Project Twin-boom. P 197 Jet Fighter 1944 Project Swept wing. P 198 Jet Fighter 1944 Project P 199 Jet Fighter Project P 200 Flying

VFA-32 (2,993 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

returned to the East Coast and became the first squadron to operate the swept-wing F9F-6 Cougar. VF-32 made subsequent deployments aboard USS Tarawa in 1953

1991 RAAF Boeing 707 crash (1,305 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

knowledge of the aircraft type. It was the first fatal accident of a swept-wing jet transport in the country and remains the largest aircraft to have

Northrop X-4 Bantam (1,674 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The X-4's primary importance involved proving a negative, in that a swept-wing semi-tailless design was not suitable for speeds near Mach 1, although

366th Operations Group (1,594 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

which were returned from Korea in the summer of 1953, then received new swept-wing F-84F Thunderstreaks in early 1954. On 18 March 1954, the KB-29 equipped

Vance Drummond (3,269 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

jet fighters. North Korea's Chinese allies operated a Russian-designed swept-wing jet, the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15, that outclassed all other fighters in

376th Air Expeditionary Wing (2,117 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

operations. Replaced the propeller-driven B-29s with new B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers in 1954, capable of flying at high subsonic speeds and

North American FJ-1 Fury (1,359 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was considered too risky for normal operations. As German research into swept wing aerodynamics was not yet available when the design was finalized, the

Jet airliner (2,038 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

designs, with widely spaced podded engines underslung on pylons beneath a swept wing, proved to be the most common arrangement and was most easily compatible

Lucas L6B (464 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

wing area of 13.01 m2 (140 sq ft). The wing is a complex shape with a swept wing root, transitioning to a forward swept leading edge, with a straight tapered

93rd Air-Ground Operations Wing (2,371 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1950s, replacing the propeller-driven B-50s with new B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers in 1954, capable of flying at high subsonic speeds and

Air Force Systems Command (2,025 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Among the successes of this period were the North American F-86 Sabre swept wing fighter, the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress intercontinental bomber, the Boeing

USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum (913 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Tracker – anti-submarine warfare (ASW) utility aircraft FJ-2 Fury – 1950s swept-wing fighter jet TA-4J Skyhawk – trainer from the last aggressor squadron,

FICON project (1,847 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Space/Smithsonian, April 1996. Retrieved: 3 February 2007. Keaveney, K. Republic F-84/Swept-Wing Variants (Aerofax Minigraph, No 15). London: Aerofax. 1987. ISBN 0-942548-20-5

Blown flap (2,161 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1952). "Investigations of the boundary-layer control on a full scale swept wing with air bled off from the turbojet" (PDF). Schmitt, H. (July 1985). "Discussion

Focke-Wulf (1,823 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

strategic transport, 1941. Focke-Wulf Fw P.03.10025 – A 1944 design with a swept wing, a forward-swept V-tail, and two pusher propellers at the rear. Focke-Wulf

SNCASE Baroudeur (754 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

aircraft was a conventional shoulder-wing monoplane with a 38 degree swept wing and tail surfaces and powered by a SNECMA Atar 101C turbojet with wing-root

Oblique wing (1,197 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

German). TU Darmstadt. pp. 7, 8. Meier, H.-U. "German development of the Swept Wing 1935-1945" (PDF). HAW-Hamburg.de. "History of Aerodynamics and Aircraft

Fireflash (1,543 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

They developed what was essentially a drone aircraft resembling a small swept-wing fighter, which would be carried in a recessed bay under the aircraft and

Bombardier Challenger 300 (2,425 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Below: gear retracted, wheels apparent, swept wing

List of Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 variants (5,869 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

information in this section adapted from MiG-21 (2008). Ye-1 (1954) Preliminary swept-wing design around the Mikulin AM-5A non-reheated turbojet. Instead of building

Bangor Air National Guard Base (2,983 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

January 1954 becoming the first SAC fighter wing to be equipped with the swept-wing Thunderjet model. The wing remained at Dow for just over a year until

PAC MFI-17 Mushshak (1,614 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

MFI-15 retained the unusual braced, mid-mounted and slightly forward-swept wing and rearward-hinged canopy, offering good all-around vision. The prototype

Albert Betz (643 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

he held until 1956. During World War II he developed the Messerschmitt swept wing, as well as other war devices for the Luftwaffe. There are also sources

Laminar–turbulent transition (1,607 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

flows in which a three-dimensional boundary layer develops such as a swept wing, the crossflow instability becomes important. For flows navigating concave

Richard Vogt (aircraft designer) (1,305 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

One-Three-Eight by B. & V. Vogt's final innovation was a tailless "pfeilflieger" (swept wing) design, well suited to the new jet engines then under development. A

Sukhoi Su-57 (14,687 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

technologies for a next-generation fighter, eventually resulting in the forward-swept wing S-32 experimental aircraft, later redesignated S-37 and then Su-47. Due

Hatfield Little Bird (341 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

fabric aircraft scrapped after one flight. Little Bird #1 An ultralight swept wing heel lift. Little Bird #2 N7019P A heavier experimental category aircraft

40th Air Expeditionary Wing (2,578 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

mission. Replaced the propeller-driven B-29s with new B-47E Stratojet swept-wing bomber medium bombers in 1954, capable of flying at high subsonic speeds

349th Air Refueling Squadron (2,081 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Troop Carrier Wing. Reactivated under Strategic Air Command received new, swept wing Boeing B-47 Stratojets in 1956 which were designed to carry nuclear weapons

Aircraft dynamic modes (1,461 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

damps out any yawing oscillation by applying rudder corrections. Some swept-wing aircraft have an unstable Dutch roll. If the Dutch roll is very lightly

100th Air Refueling Wing (4,224 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Air Division. The 100th Bomb Wing was assigned the new B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers in 1954, capable of flying at high subsonic speeds and

53rd Electronic Warfare Group (3,489 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

replaced its propeller-driven RB-29s with new Boeing B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers in October 1953 and was redesignated as the 68th Bombardment

North American F-82 Twin Mustang (10,023 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the MiG, and it took the swept-wing North American F-86 Sabre to counter them. It would take a new generation of swept-wing jet bombers, able to fly higher

Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-14 (391 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

performance of the wing in a wide range of conditions, the wing-tips have swept wing-lets, as well as turbulators forward of the flaps on the undersurface

VMFA-323 (1,891 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the squadron began flying the F9F Panther and then the F9F Cougar, a swept-wing version of the Panther. In 1956 the squadron adopted the FJ-4 Fury, with

Ground effect (aerodynamics) (2,098 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

wheels on the ground." (from NTSB Accident Report concerning loss of a swept wing business-class jet airplane in April 2011) Thin Margins in Wintry Takeoffs

Washout filter (356 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

lower frequency (constant steady-state signal). [C.K. Wang] In modern swept wing aircraft, yaw damping control systems are used to dampen and stabilize

Messerschmitt Me 262 variants (4,119 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

forces in April 1945. In April 1941, Adolf Busemann proposed that a 35° swept wing be fitted to the Me 262. Although this was not implemented, it did lead

Delta Air Lines (7,468 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

origins in the Mississippi Delta. It is also said to be reminiscent of the swept-wing design of the DC-8, Delta's first jet aircraft. Delta's current livery

The Lennon Sisters (2,190 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with the numerous hairstyles that Kathy would wear like her signature “swept wing look”. The sisters made no secret that they were huge fans of the innovative

380th Electromagnetic Warfare Squadron (1,532 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

it replaced its propeller-driven B-29s with new Boeing B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers, capable of flying at high subsonic speeds and primarily

Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-150 family (1,703 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

bureau had developed a range of large fighter aircraft starting with the swept-wing I-3 series (i.e., I-380, I-410 and I-420), followed by the I-7 and the

OMAC Laser 300 (967 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

is a canard layout powered by a pusher turboprop engine, and a high, swept wing carrying endplate fins on the tips. Construction was of metal throughout

Mach tuck (1,317 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

highly curved upper surface causing a lower critical Mach number. On a swept wing the shock wave typically forms first at the wing root, especially if it

Operation Paperclip (6,540 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

2017. Ap (November 5, 1986). "Adolf Busemann, 85, Dead; Designer of the Swept Wing". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 27, 2023. Memorial

Junkers Ju 188 (3,101 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Resource Group Site". Lommel, Horst, 2004. Junkers Ju 287: The World's First Swept-Wing Jet Aircraft. Atglen, PA: Shiffer Publishing, Ltd. Green, William (1972)

350th Air Refueling Squadron (2,846 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

squadron reactivated under Strategic Air Command in 1956, and received new, swept wing Boeing B-47 Stratojet, which was designed to carry nuclear weapons and

McDonnell XF-85 Goblin (3,494 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

conventional design promising a Mach 0.9 capability, using alternatively a 35° swept wing and delta wing. McDonnell also considered adding a telescoping extension

CAC CA-23 (1,089 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

detailed design drawings and wind tunnel tests of the CA-23 by the U.K. Swept Wing Advisory Committee to 15 British Aircraft manufacturers and Avro Canada

Ronald Eric Bishop (643 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

– four-engined propeller airliner in 1950 DH.108 – the first British swept wing jet, mainly designed by John Carver Meadows Frost, and the first British

Ronald Eric Bishop (643 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

– four-engined propeller airliner in 1950 DH.108 – the first British swept wing jet, mainly designed by John Carver Meadows Frost, and the first British

Flap (aeronautics) (4,036 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

1943 and evaluated in Goettingen, Krueger flaps are found on many modern swept wing airliners. A small fixed perpendicular tab of between 1 and 2% of the

350th Air Refueling Squadron (2,846 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

squadron reactivated under Strategic Air Command in 1956, and received new, swept wing Boeing B-47 Stratojet, which was designed to carry nuclear weapons and

116th Air Control Wing (3,223 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

redesignated as the 128th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron and converted the swept-wing F-84F Thunderstreak. Strangely enough, it was not until March 1957 that

Grumman Gulfstream II (2,997 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Gulfstream II flew on October 2, 1966. The Gulfstream II is a twin-jet swept wing corporate transport powered by two Rolls-Royce Spey turbofan engines and

306th Strategic Wing (3,653 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

upgrading to the jet age with the arrival of the new Boeing B-47A Stratojet swept-wing medium bomber. The B-47As, however, were essentially identical to the

43rd Airlift Wing (3,378 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Replaced the propeller-driven B-29s and B-50s with new B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers in 1954, capable of flying at high subsonic speeds, primarily

Northrop F-15 Reporter (3,225 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

45-59300) was used by NACA at Moffett Field in California to test some early swept-wing designs by dropping recoverable aerodynamic test bodies from high altitude

67th Missile Squadron (1,521 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

propeller-driven B-29s were replaced with new Boeing B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers in 1953. These aircraft were capable of flying at high

2nd Air Refueling Squadron (3,453 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

aerial refueling. The planes were designed to refuel SAC's B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bomber, with the 2d Bombardment Wing began to receive also in 1953

393rd Bomb Squadron (1,426 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

propeller-driven B-50 as a first-line strategic bomber. Received new, swept-wing Boeing B-47 Stratojets in 1955 which were designed to carry nuclear weapons

Eclipse 500 (5,842 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Oshkosh Airshow. The V-Jet II had an all-composite structure with a forward-swept wing, a V-tail, each fin of which was mounted on the nacelle of one of the

UB.109T (3,579 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

on 17 December 1950. Bristol's entry, the Type 182, was based on the swept wing planform from the Folland Gnat, with a plastic fuselage and a V-tail.

Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica de Argentina (1,563 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

designed and built in Latin America FMA IA 33 Pulqui II prototype 5, first swept-wing jet fighter designed and built in Latin America FMA IA 41 Urubú, flying

Ilyushin Il-28 (4,034 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sverdlovsk and Novosibirsk). Also designated Ilyushin Il-20. Il-28S Proposed swept-wing version with more powerful Klimov VK-5 engines. Unbuilt. Il-28RM Modified

Prandtl–Glauert transformation (1,490 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pfeilflügels, eine technische Herausforderung" [The evolution of the swept-wing, a technical challenge] (PDF), Ludwig Prandtl memorial lecture, GAMM 2005

Sud-Est Grognard (1,021 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ONERA (Chalais-Meudon) wind tunnel. The design featured an unusual 47˚ swept wing design along with two stacked Nene jet engines fed by a single dorsal

SEPR 84 (806 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

little relation, other than its name, to the Dassault Mystère; France's swept-wing fighter of the period. The delta aircraft was smaller, around two thirds

320th Air Expeditionary Wing (3,686 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

wing replaced its propeller-driven B-29s with new Boeing B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers capable of flying at high subsonic speeds and primarily

66th Missile Squadron (1,439 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Replaced the propeller-driven B-29s with new Boeing B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers in 1953, capable of flying at high subsonic speeds and

Göttingen (6,949 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

exiled in Paris. Woldemar Voigt (1907–1980), engineer, designed advanced swept wing jet-powered aircraft Kurt Vieweg (1911–1976), a leading agricultural politician

Viking SF-2A Cygnet (715 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

writer Paul Dye concluded, "Flying a piece of history (and with a forward swept wing, something fairly unique!) is always fun. Just like all strange meat gets

Nevada Test and Training Range (military unit) (3,274 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

then. The wing's squadrons began receiving new Boeing B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers in January 1955, capable of flying at high subsonic speeds

Spin (aerodynamics) (5,112 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

which is primarily rolling with moderate yaw. For a low aspect ratio swept wing with relatively large yaw and pitch inertia the diagram will be different

Cessna CitationJet/M2 (2,809 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

October 2006 NBAA conference. Its wing design comes from the moderately swept wing of the Citation Sovereign. Powered by Williams FJ44-4A turbofans, it has

Radioplane Company (2,338 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

essentially an OQ-3 with some cleanups and a new mid-mounted, slightly swept wing. This reached 112 miles per hour (180 km/h) but was not taken into production

Feiro I (1,040 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

180 hp (134 kW) Hispano-Suiza 8A water-cooled V-8 engine, a slightly swept wing and revised vertical tail. Data from Flight 14 February 1924, pp.86-7

Antonov An-178 (2,219 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Antonov An-178 is a high-wing transport aircraft with moderately swept wing, winglets and a T-tail. It was derived from the 99-seat An-158 regional

Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk (9,466 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ways, such as the use of "elevators, a bubble canopy, a less sharply swept wing and reconfigured tail". It would also be re-engined with General Electric

List of aircraft (I) (3,898 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

project Ilyushin Il-28 medium bomber/trainer Ilyushin Il-30 tactical swept wing bomber prototype developed from the Il-28 Ilyushin Il-32 prototype cargo

121st Air Refueling Wing (4,481 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

storage at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona and received new F-84F Thunderstreak swept-wing interceptors. Later in 1957, the 164th Fighter-Bomber Squadron received

96th Test Wing (4,240 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

operations in March 1954. The wing began training with Boeing B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers, capable of flying at high subsonic speeds, in April 1955

Cessna A-37 Dragonfly (4,813 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

able to engage targets at speeds roughly 100 miles per hour slower than swept-wing fighters and by doing so improve its bombing accuracy; pilots were reportedly

96th Bomb Squadron (2,724 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Replaced the propeller-driven B-50s with new Boeing B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers in 1954, capable of flying at high subsonic speeds and

McDonnell Douglas MD-11 (7,013 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

High Altitude and Center of Gravity on The Handling Characteristics of Swept-wing Commercial Airplanes". Aero Magazine. 1 (2). Boeing. Retrieved 29 June

96th Bomb Squadron (2,724 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Replaced the propeller-driven B-50s with new Boeing B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers in 1954, capable of flying at high subsonic speeds and

Paper plane (4,195 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

rolls up the leading edge which then stays unswept. The other uses a swept wing or axial folding to produce something like a fuselage extending out of

Longitudinal stability (2,671 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

High Altitude and Center of Gravity on The Handling Characteristics of Swept-wing Commercial Airplanes". Aero Magazine. 1 (2). Boeing. Retrieved 29 June

W. E. W. Petter (5,291 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

to terminate development of Hill's Pterodactyl, a pioneering tailless swept-wing aircraft. However, other business decisions by Ernest Petter infuriated

Dick Cresswell (6,006 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Since November 1950, the Communists had been operating a Russian-designed swept-wing jet fighter, the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15, that outclassed all other fighters

Post-war aviation (4,179 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

reversal in the action of the flight controls. Stall behaviour of the swept wing was also poorly understood and could be extremely sharp. Other problems

68th Missile Squadron (1,900 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

unit replaced its propeller-driven B-29s with new Boeing B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers in 1953. These machines were capable of flying at high

Kirtland Air Force Base (13,109 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

weapons were completed at Kirtland. The XB-47 Stratojet, the first U.S. swept-wing, multi-engine bomber, shortly followed the arrival of the B-36 at Kirtland

Emelyanov KIM-3 Stakanovets (617 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

rear cockpit. The Stakhanovetz first flew in 1936. Its strongly forward swept wing has since become common on two seat gliders. Though its handling characteristics

List of aircraft of the United Kingdom in World War II (1,303 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(operated by engine manufacturers) General Aircraft GAL.56 (RAF) tailless swept wing glider Gloster E.28/39 (RAF) jet propelled aircraft Gloster Gauntlet (RAF)

118th Airlift Squadron (3,788 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

equipped with experimental Curtiss OX-12's with rotary engines and a swept-wing design. The squadron, or elements thereof, called up to perform the following

List of Tupolev aircraft (2,496 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

prototype of the Tu-14 Tu-82 "Butcher" (also known as Tu-22): experimental swept-wing jet bomber, 1949 Tu-83: bomber project developed from the Tu-82, 1949

351st Air Refueling Squadron (3,938 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(later Pease AFB), New Hampshire, the 351st BS was equipped with 15 new, swept wing Boeing B-47E Stratojets which were designed to carry nuclear weapons and

IML Addax (860 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

twin-engined, single-seat STOL fighter/ground-attack aircraft. It was to have a swept wing with blown flaps with large Leading-edge extensions, and twin tails, while

Development of Chinese Nationalist air force (1937–1945) (3,946 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

368. 呂烈士基純 Guo, Leo (2020-05-21). "1st AFAMF XP-1 — China's Wartime Swept Wing Fighter". Sino Records. Retrieved 2021-01-23. DI (15 June 2015). "World

33rd Flying Training Squadron (1,216 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Replaced the propeller-driven B-29s with new Boeing B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers in 1953, capable of flying at high subsonic speeds and

25th Space Range Squadron (2,688 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

propeller-driven B-29s were replaced with new Boeing B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers in 1954, capable of flying at high subsonic speeds and

Outboard tail (1,201 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

adding unduly to the structural loads on the wing. Compared to a tailless swept wing of similar overall span, the outboard tail has a greater moment arm than

Ireland Neptune (985 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

N-2C 3-view, showing swept wing and landing gear

SEPECAT Jaguar (9,721 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the French government in 1973. The Jaguar is an orthodox single-seat, swept-wing, twin-engine monoplane design, with tall tricycle-type retractable landing

Fouga CM.170 Magister (3,756 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

CM.171, which functioned as a test aircraft for the envisioned CM.195 swept-wing, butterfly-tailed trainer. The production of the Magister parts were split

128th Airborne Command and Control Squadron (4,552 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

re-designated as the 128th Fighter Interceptor Squadron and converted the swept-wing Republic F-84F Thunderstreak. Strangely enough, it was not until March

Thanh Hóa Bridge (4,619 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

gunsight reverse-engineered from the F-86A (as well as a new, more sharply swept wing to increase its critical Mach number, therefore top speed). By comparison

1947 in aviation (5,985 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

reporting name "Coach") with Aeroflot Lavochkin La-160, first Soviet swept-wing fighter Yakovlev Yak-15U, a prototype of Yak-17 June 4 - Morane-Saulnier

157th Air Refueling Wing (5,936 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

was now re-equipped with 24 F-86L Sabre Interceptor jets, a dedicated swept-wing interceptor which was capable of being directed to intercept targets by

Robert Thomas Jones (engineer) (1,514 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Karman's team of investigators found that German experts had been working on swept-wing designs for several years. Jones's thin-wing design ultimately proved

Messerschmitt Me 262 (12,177 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

researched the topic from 1940. In April 1941, Busemann proposed fitting a 35° swept wing (Pfeilflügel II, literally "arrow wing II") to the Me 262, the same wing-sweep

List of canard aircraft (82 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Prototype 1 Grumman X-29 USA Jet Experimental 1984 Prototype 2 Forward-Swept wing experimental aircraft. Gyroflug Speed Canard Germany Propeller Sports

Eastern Area Command (RAAF) (3,449 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

with English Electric Canberra jet bombers, and also procure CAC Sabre swept-wing jet fighters. The Federal government retired Air Marshal Jones in 1952

373d Strategic Missile Squadron (2,069 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bombardment Squadron was reactivated again with new Boeing B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers, capable of flying at high subsonic speeds and primarily

79th Fighter Squadron (1,633 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

October 1952, flying first the F-84G Thunderjet and then in 1955 the swept wing F-84F Thunderstreak. Redesignated as the 79th Tactical Fighter Squadron

List of Ilyushin aircraft (968 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

bomber/trainer, world's first twinjet with an afterburner, 1948. Il-30 tactical swept wing bomber prototype developed from the Il-28, 1951. Il-46 jet-powered bomber

133rd Air Refueling Squadron (5,470 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

was now re-equipped with 24 F-86L Sabre Interceptor jets, a dedicated swept-wing interceptor which was capable of being directed to intercept targets by

Ralph Hooper (1,272 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

introduced in 1962. In 1964, the prototypes were improved with a more swept wing and a more powerful Pegasus 5 engine, and in November 1964 it was designated

Supermarine Type 553 (256 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the 545, which led to Vickers-Supermarine proposing the 553 with a swept wing that would reduce aerodynamic drag. It was to have been built using aluminium

List of aircraft (Br–Bz) (5,768 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Type 172 to E.8/47; glider Bristol Type 175 Britannia Bristol Type 176 swept-wing research aircraft to E.8/47/2 Bristol Type 177 twin-engine jet fighter

366th Fighter Wing (5,975 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

which were returned from Korea in the summer of 1953, then received new swept-wing F-84F Thunderstreaks in early 1954. On 18 March 1954, the KB-29 equipped

John Cochrane (pilot) (934 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

002, Cochrane flew on numerous high-performance delta wing or deeply swept wing aircraft to explore their flying characteristics. He flew on the Dassault

Nike Hercules (8,038 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

to the ground after launch. The boosters were equipped with four large swept-wing fins at the extreme rear, behind the rocket exhaust, using a diamond cross-section

2015 Shoreham Airshow crash (5,529 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

ex-military jet aircraft from performing aerobatics at airshows; a ban on swept-wing aircraft remained in place. The airshow scheduled to be held at Durham

North American XB-70 Valkyrie (8,894 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

preferred planform for supersonic flight, replacing earlier designs like the swept-wing and trapezoidal layouts seen on designs like the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter

65th Special Operations Squadron (3,007 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

first-line strategic bomber. It replaced them with new Boeing B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers in 1954, capable of flying at high subsonic speeds. In

374th Strategic Missile Squadron (2,420 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

was reactivated a few months later in October with new B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers, which were capable of flying at high subsonic speeds and

44th Bombardment Squadron (1,143 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

organization. Replaced the propeller-driven B-29s with new B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers in 1954, capable of flying at high subsonic speeds and

List of pilots awarded an Aviator's Certificate by the Royal Aero Club in 1910 (359 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Launcelot D. L. Gibbs 7 June 1910 Made short hops in the first Dunne Swept-wing aeroplane at Blair Atholl in Scotland in 1908. He later became internationally

Strategic Air Command (13,208 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

were lost to damage or crashes. SAC's first jet strategic bomber was the swept-wing B-47 medium bomber, which first entered service in 1951 and became operational

Three-surface aircraft (2,516 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1917 Prototype Grumman X-29 US Jet Experimental 1984 Prototype Forward-swept wing with canard foreplane and tailboom flaps. Herring-Burgess US Propeller

No. 77 Squadron RAAF (7,417 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pusan on 3 December 1950. The communists operated a Russian-designed swept-wing jet fighter, the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15, that was far superior to all

United States Air Force in South Korea (7,528 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

airfield (just across the Yalu from China) when they encountered six swept-wing jets coming across the Yalu at them, firing as they approached. The Mustangs

Edmund T. Allen (1,608 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

being in position to take the leadership in the development of large swept-wing jets. In 1940, Lockheed built a wind tunnel with the same test section

Aviation safety (9,348 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

which tend to be more susceptible to inflight ice accumulation, than are swept-wing jet airliners. Airlines and airports ensure that aircraft are properly

Alexander Kartveli (2,673 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

was going into serial production in 1946. Soon he would also add the swept-wing variant Republic F-84F Thunderstreak. A total of 10,000 of these new generation

Supersonic transport (8,047 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

boom are allowed by shaped-boom design; integrated low-noise propulsion; swept-wing supersonic natural laminar flow; and the cockpit external vision system

Frederick Page (1,970 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

designed for Mach 1.5 and a consequence it had a conventional 40° degree swept wing. This proposal was submitted in the November and in January 1949 the project

375th Bombardment Squadron (1,163 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

October as the 375th Bombardment Squadron with new Boeing B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers, capable of flying at high subsonic speeds and primarily

Vickers Valiant (9,088 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

design of the Valiant gave an overall impression of a clean aircraft with swept-wing aerodynamics. The root chord thickness ratio of 12% allowed the Avon engines

381st Bombardment Squadron (1,221 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

it replaced the propeller-driven B-29s with new Boeing B-47E Stratojet swept-wing medium bombers. These aircraft were capable of flying at high subsonic

Avro Vulcan (15,581 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

bomber. The team estimated that an otherwise conventional aircraft, with a swept wing of 45°, would have doubled the weight requirement. Realising that swept

Société d'Etudes pour la Propulsion par Réaction (1,444 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

little relation, other than its name, to the Dassault Mystère; France's swept-wing fighter of the period. The delta aircraft was smaller, around two thirds

Republic Airport (3,148 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the runways. Republic built the straight-wing F-84 Thunderjet and the swept-wing F-84 Thunderstreak during the Korean War (1952 airport diagram) and extended