The wing configuration of a fixed-wing aircraft (including both gliders and powered aeroplanes) is its arrangement of lifting and related surfaces. Aircraft...

without increasing drag. Variants of the delta wing plan offer improvements to the basic configuration. Cropped delta – tip is cut off. This helps maintain...

A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration with a single mainplane, in contrast to a biplane or other types of multiplanes, which have multiple...

action of air flow on the wing, which is an airfoil. The airfoil is shaped such that the air provides a net upward force on the wing, while the movement of...

rocket engine. Airplanes come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and wing configurations. The broad spectrum of uses for airplanes includes recreation, transportation...

the configuration that provides the absolute minimum induced drag for a given total vertical lift is a closed system, i.e. a rectangular box wing with...

A forward-swept wing or reverse-swept wing is an aircraft wing configuration in which the quarter-chord line of the wing has a forward sweep. Typically...

its purest form the flying wing suffers from being unstable and difficult to control. The basic flying wing configuration became an object of significant...

A tandem wing is a wing configuration in which a flying craft or animal has two or more sets of wings set one behind another. All the wings contribute...

1000+ seat Blended Wing Body aircraft configurations". Evacmod (video). Retrieved August 25, 2015. "Boeing not convinced by blended wing aircraft design"...