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delta wing [′del·tə ‚wiŋ] (aerospace engineering) A triangularly shaped wing of an aircraft. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Also known as an X-20 successor to the famous X-15 rocket planes, the Dyna-Soar was to be a small, delta-wing glider that would carry a pilot and cargo into space. Since the early 1990s, dozens of ornithology papers have therefore drawn on the mathematics of these delta-wing aircraft. Palmdale's plants assembled and tested the fighter jets of the early Cold War: the F-86 Sabre and F-100 Super Sabre from North American, Douglas' A-4 Skyhawk attack jet, Convair's delta-wing F-102 and F-106 interceptors, Lockheed's T-33 trainer, F-94 Starfire and double-supersonic F-104, and Northrop's F-89. |
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