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Dihedral (aeronautics)

Angle between each wing or tail surface within a pair

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Wake turbulence

Turbulence that follows behind aircraft traveling through air

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Wingtip vortices

Turbulence caused by difference in air pressure on either side of wing

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Inlet cone

Supersonic aircraft component

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Horseshoe vortex

Model in aerodynamics

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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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NACA duct

Jet air inlet design

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Wing loading

Total mass divided by area of wing

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Variable-sweep wing

Airplane wings capable of changing position to alter their geometry

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Wing tip

Part of an aircraft

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Wingtip device

Aircraft component fixed to the end of the wings to improve performance

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Trailing edge

Rear edge of an aerodynamic surface

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Starting vortex

Vortex around the trailing edge of an airfoil accelerated from rest

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Elevon

Aircraft control surface used to control pitch and roll

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Tailplane

Small lifting surface of a fixed-wing aircraft

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Thrust

Reaction force

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Disk loading

Characteristic of rotors/propellers

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Critical Mach number

Concept in aerodynamics

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High-lift device

Wing surface area adjuster, typically for shortening take-off and landing

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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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Angle of attack

Angle between the chord of a wing and the undisturbed airflow

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Climb (aeronautics)

Flight maneuver

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Stall strips

Aerodynamic device

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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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Vapor cone

Condensation pattern in transonic flight

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Strake (aeronautics)

Flight control surface

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Washout (aeronautics)

Characteristic of aircraft wing design

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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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Area rule

Aerodynamic concept

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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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NACA cowling

Aircraft engine fairing

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