cropped surface

cropped surface

Any control surface, wing or tail, whose tip has been cut off diagonally at the Mach angle appropriate to the particular supersonic flight condition.
An Illustrated Dictionary of Aviation Copyright © 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved
References in periodicals archive ?
Players like Alan Lawrence, Nicky Henderson and Martin Lauchlan rely on a cropped surface to zip the ball about on.
JUST MOW RELIEF FOR JAGS BOSS; DUNDEE v PARTICK THISTLE
Lewan (1993) measured evaporation from bare and cover cropped surfaces during the winter in southwestern Sweden.
Surface energy balance partitioning over rye and oats cover crops in central Iowa
Encyclopedia browser ?
Full browser ?