Elliptical wing
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elliptical-wing-288-17704679
title:
Elliptical wing
text:
An elliptical wing is a wing planform whose leading and trailing edges each approximate two segments of an ellipse. It is not to be confused with annular wings, which may be elliptically shaped. Relatively few aircraft have adopted the elliptical wing, an even-smaller number of which attained mass production; the majority of aircraft that did use this feature were introduced during the 1930s and 1940s. Perhaps the most famous aircraft to feature an elliptical wing is the Supermarine Spitfire, a
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Airplane wing with an elliptical shape
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptical_wing
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2023-10-11T16:18:58Z
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