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42 relations: Adaptive compliant wing, AEA June Bug, Aileron, Airbus, Aircraft, Aircraft flight control system, Angle of attack, Boeing X-53 Active Aeroelastic Wing, Canard (aeronautics), Center of mass, Delta wing, Drag (physics), Duck, Elevon, Fighter aircraft, Flap (aeronautics), Flaperon, Flight control surfaces, Flight dynamics, Fluidics, French language, Grumman X-29, Inertia, Lift (force), Mignet Pou-du-Ciel, Moment (physics), NASA, Radar cross-section, Rudder, Rutan Quickie, Stabilator, Stabilizer (aeronautics), Stealth technology, Supersonic speed, Tailplane, Tandem wing, Three-surface aircraft, Thrust, Trim tab, Unmanned aerial vehicle, Wright brothers, Yoke (aeronautics).
Adaptive compliant wing
An adaptive compliant wing is a wing which is flexible so that aspects of its shape can be changed in flight.
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AEA June Bug
The June Bug (or Aerodrome #3) was an early US aircraft designed and flown by Glenn H. Curtiss and built by the Aerial Experiment Association (A.E.A) in 1908.
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Aileron
An aileron (French for "little wing" or "fin") is a hinged flight control surface usually forming part of the trailing edge of each wing of a fixed-wing aircraft.
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Airbus
Airbus SE is a European corporation, registered in the Netherlands and trading shares in France, Germany and Spain.
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Aircraft
An aircraft is a machine that is able to fly by gaining support from the air.
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Aircraft flight control system
A conventional fixed-wing aircraft flight control system consists of flight control surfaces, the respective cockpit controls, connecting linkages, and the necessary operating mechanisms to control an aircraft's direction in flight.
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Angle of attack
In fluid dynamics, angle of attack (AOA, or \alpha (Greek letter alpha)) is the angle between a reference line on a body (often the chord line of an airfoil) and the vector representing the relative motion between the body and the fluid through which it is moving.
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Boeing X-53 Active Aeroelastic Wing
The X-53 Active Aeroelastic Wing (AAW) development program is a completed American research project that was undertaken jointly by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Boeing Phantom Works and NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, where the technology was flight tested on a modified McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet.
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Canard (aeronautics)
A canard is an aeronautical arrangement wherein a small forewing or foreplane is placed forward of the main wing of a fixed-wing aircraft.
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Center of mass
In physics, the center of mass of a distribution of mass in space is the unique point where the weighted relative position of the distributed mass sums to zero, or the point where if a force is applied it moves in the direction of the force without rotating.
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Delta wing
The delta wing is a wing shaped in the form of a triangle.
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Drag (physics)
In fluid dynamics, drag (sometimes called air resistance, a type of friction, or fluid resistance, another type of friction or fluid friction) is a force acting opposite to the relative motion of any object moving with respect to a surrounding fluid.
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Duck
Duck is the common name for a large number of species in the waterfowl family Anatidae, which also includes swans and geese.
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Elevon
Elevons are aircraft control surfaces that combine the functions of the elevator (used for pitch control) and the aileron (used for roll control), hence the name.
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Fighter aircraft
A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat against other aircraft, as opposed to bombers and attack aircraft, whose main mission is to attack ground targets.
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Flap (aeronautics)
Flaps are a type of high-lift device used to increase the lift of an aircraft wing at a given airspeed.
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Flaperon
A flaperon (a portmanteau of flap and aileron) on an aircraft's wing is a type of control surface that combines the functions of both flaps and ailerons.
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Flight control surfaces
Aircraft flight control surfaces are aerodynamic devices allowing a pilot to adjust and control the aircraft's flight attitude.
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Flight dynamics
Flight dynamics is the study of the performance, stability, and control of vehicles flying through the air or in outer space.
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Fluidics
Fluidics, or fluidic logic, is the use of a fluid to perform analog or digital operations similar to those performed with electronics.
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French language
French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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Grumman X-29
The Grumman X-29 was an American experimental aircraft that tested a forward-swept wing, canard control surfaces, and other novel aircraft technologies.
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Inertia
Inertia is the resistance of any physical object to any change in its position and state of motion.
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Lift (force)
A fluid flowing past the surface of a body exerts a force on it.
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Mignet Pou-du-Ciel
The Flying Flea (Pou du Ciel literally "Louse of the Sky" in French) is a large family of light homebuilt aircraft first flown in 1933.
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Moment (physics)
In physics, a moment is an expression involving the product of a distance and a physical quantity, and in this way it accounts for how the physical quantity is located or arranged.
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NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.
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Radar cross-section
Radar cross-section (RCS) is a measure of how detectable an object is by radar.
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Rudder
A rudder is a primary control surface used to steer a ship, boat, submarine, hovercraft, aircraft, or other conveyance that moves through a fluid medium (generally air or water).
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Rutan Quickie
The Rutan Quickie is a lightweight single-seat taildragger aircraft of composite construction, configured with tandem wings.
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Stabilator
A stabilator, more frequently all-moving tail or all-flying tail, is a fully movable aircraft stabilizer.
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Stabilizer (aeronautics)
An aircraft stabilizer is an aerodynamic surface, typically including one or more movable control surfaces, that provides longitudinal (pitch) and/or directional (yaw) stability and control.
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Stealth technology
Stealth technology also termed low observable technology (LO technology) is a sub-discipline of military tactics and passive electronic countermeasures, which cover a range of techniques used with personnel, aircraft, ships, submarines, missiles and satellites to make them less visible (ideally invisible) to radar, infrared, sonar and other detection methods.
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Supersonic speed
Supersonic travel is a rate of travel of an object that exceeds the speed of sound (Mach 1).
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Tailplane
A tailplane, also known as a horizontal stabiliser, is a small lifting surface located on the tail (empennage) behind the main lifting surfaces of a fixed-wing aircraft as well as other non-fixed-wing aircraft such as helicopters and gyroplanes.
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Tandem wing
QAC Quickie Q2 A tandem wing aircraft has two main wings, with one located forward and the other to the rear.
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Three-surface aircraft
A three-surface aircraft or sometimes three-lifting-surface aircraft has a foreplane, a central wing and a tailplane.
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Thrust
Thrust is a reaction force described quantitatively by Newton's third law.
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Trim tab
Trim tabs are small surfaces connected to the trailing edge of a larger control surface on a boat or aircraft, used to control the trim of the controls, i.e. to counteract hydro- or aerodynamic forces and stabilise the boat or aircraft in a particular desired attitude without the need for the operator to constantly apply a control force.
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Unmanned aerial vehicle
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard.
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Wright brothers
The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were two American aviators, engineers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who are generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane.
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Yoke (aeronautics)
A yoke, alternatively known as a control wheel is a device used for piloting some fixed-wing aircraft.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_(aeronautics)
