Aircraft
Vehicle or machine that is able to fly by gaining support from the air
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Canard (aeronautics)
Aircraft configuration in which a small wing is placed in front of the main wing
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NACA duct
Jet air inlet design
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Variable-sweep wing
Airplane wings capable of changing position to alter their geometry
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Angle of attack
Angle between the chord of a wing and the undisturbed airflow
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Horseshoe vortex
Model in aerodynamics
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Climb (aeronautics)
Flight maneuver
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Flight control surfaces
Surface that allows a pilot to adjust and control an aircraft's flight attitude
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Dutch roll
Aircraft motion combining rolling and yawing
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Elliptical wing
Airplane wing with an elliptical shape
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Disk loading
Characteristic of rotors/propellers
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Elevon
Aircraft control surface used to control pitch and roll
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Strake (aeronautics)
Flight control surface
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Starting vortex
Vortex around the trailing edge of an airfoil accelerated from rest
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Stall strips
Aerodynamic device
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Thrust
Reaction force
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Tailplane
Small lifting surface of a fixed-wing aircraft
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Vapor cone
Condensation pattern in transonic flight
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T-tail
Aircraft empennage configuration
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Leading-edge slat
Device increasing the lift of the wing at low speed (take-off and landing)
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Wing loading
Total mass divided by area of wing
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Wake turbulence
Turbulence that follows behind aircraft traveling through air
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Wing tip
Part of an aircraft
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Washout (aeronautics)
Characteristic of aircraft wing design
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Wingtip vortices
Turbulence caused by difference in air pressure on either side of wing
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Wake (physics)
Term in fluid dynamics
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Sound barrier
Sudden increase of undesirable effects when an aircraft approaches the speed of sound
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Critical Mach number
Concept in aerodynamics
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Area rule
Aerodynamic concept
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Wingtip device
Aircraft component fixed to the end of the wings to improve performance
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Inlet cone
Supersonic aircraft component
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Jet blast
Rapid air movement produced by jet engines
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Camber (aerodynamics)
Asymmetry between the two acting surfaces of an airfoil
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Inertia coupling
Abrupt change in an aircraft's roll due to fuselage inertia
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Speed to fly
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Center of pressure (fluid mechanics)
Point at which the resultant force of a pressure field acts on a body
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Dihedral (aeronautics)
Angle between each wing or tail surface within a pair
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Trailing edge
Rear edge of an aerodynamic surface
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NACA cowling
Aircraft engine fairing
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High-lift device
Wing surface area adjuster, typically for shortening take-off and landing
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Napier Javelin
British air-cooled engine
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Blackburn Cirrus Bombardier
1950s British piston aircraft engine
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Walter Mikron
1930s Czech piston aircraft engine
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Walter Minor
1920s Czech piston aircraft engine
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Avia M 337
1960s Czechoslovak piston aircraft engine
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Mitsubishi Kasei
1930s Japanese piston aircraft engine
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Nakajima Homare
1940s Japanese piston aircraft engine
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Alvis Leonides
1930s British piston aircraft engine
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Blackburne Thrush
1920s British aircraft piston engine
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Powered parachute
Parachute with motor and wheels
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