Wing root

The wing root is the part of the wing on a fixed-wing aircraft that is closest to the fuselage. ^[1]

6 relations: Aircraft fairing, Fuselage, Monoplane, Parasitic drag, Wing tip, Wingbox.

Aircraft fairing

An aircraft fairing is a structure whose primary function is to produce a smooth outline and reduce drag.

New!!: Wing root and Aircraft fairing · See more »

Fuselage

The fuselage (from the French fuselé "spindle-shaped") is an aircraft's main body section.

New!!: Wing root and Fuselage · See more »

Monoplane

A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with a single main wing plane, in contrast to a biplane or other multiplane, each of which has multiple planes.

New!!: Wing root and Monoplane · See more »

Parasitic drag

Parasitic drag is drag that results when an object is moved through a fluid medium.

New!!: Wing root and Parasitic drag · See more »

Wing tip

A wing tip (or wingtip) is the part of the wing that is most distant from the fuselage of a fixed-wing aircraft.

New!!: Wing root and Wing tip · See more »

Wingbox

The wing box of an airplane is the structural component from which the wings extend.

New!!: Wing root and Wingbox · See more »

Redirects here:

Wingroot.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_root

Unionpedia is a concept map or semantic network organized like an encyclopedia – dictionary. It gives a brief definition of each concept and its relationships.

This is a giant online mental map that serves as a basis for concept diagrams. It's free to use and each article or document can be downloaded. It's a tool, resource or reference for study, research, education, learning or teaching, that can be used by teachers, educators, pupils or students; for the academic world: for school, primary, secondary, high school, middle, technical degree, college, university, undergraduate, master's or doctoral degrees; for papers, reports, projects, ideas, documentation, surveys, summaries, or thesis. Here is the definition, explanation, description, or the meaning of each significant on which you need information, and a list of their associated concepts as a glossary. Available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Polish, Dutch, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Swedish, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Catalan, Czech, Hebrew, Danish, Finnish, Indonesian, Norwegian, Romanian, Turkish, Vietnamese, Korean, Thai, Greek, Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovak, Lithuanian, Filipino, Latvian, Estonian and Slovenian. More languages soon.

All the information was extracted from Wikipedia, and it's available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

Unionpedia is not endorsed by or affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.

Google Play, Android and the Google Play logo are trademarks of Google Inc.