space of aircraft carriers. The folding allows the aircraft to occupy less space in a confined hangar because the folded wing normally rises over the fuselage...

leading and trailing edges to increase wing area. Folding wing: part of the wing extends for takeoff and landing, and folds away for high-speed flight. The outer...

G-36Bs were fitted with non-folding wings and were given the designation Martlet III. These were followed by 30 folding wing aircraft (F4F-3As) which were...

And Wing Fold Controls Unveiled". Aviation Week Network (aviationweek.com). Retrieved August 21, 2021. "Liebherr division to build 777X folding wing-tip...

adoption of a modern version of the Grumman Sto-Wing folding wing system, preventing the folded wing panels from making contact with the E-2's rotodome...

box, automatic headlights with dusk sensor, front fog lights, power-folding wing mirrors, cruise control, front and rear curtain airbags. In the UK market...

Grumman-patented "Sto-Wing" folding wing system, pioneered on their earlier Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat piston-engined fighter of the early-WWII period, to fold its wings...

used. To accommodate a folding wing, the designers considered retracting the main landing gear rearward, but for the chord of wing that was chosen, making...

longitudinal folding of the wing membrane and sometimes also transverse folding. Folding may sometimes occur along the flexion lines. Though fold lines may...

arrester gear and elevators; an estimated two-year development time for folding-wing aircraft; the time needed for studying the effects of air turbulence...

October 2016. The folding takes 20 seconds to complete.[citation needed] Wingtip device "Comparison Of Square, Round, And Hoerner Wing Tips". Sport Aviation...

Index of aviation articles Adaptive compliant wing Variable-incidence wing Variable camber wing Folding wing According to aviation publication Flight International...

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resulted in the purchase of three DT (D for Douglas, T for torpedo) folding-wing aircraft. The DT used a welded steel fuselage with aluminum covering...

operating MiG-29Ks.[citation needed] The aircraft has an enlarged and folding wing, an arrestor hook and a corrosion-protected reinforced fuselage. One...

Short Admiralty Type 135 (1914) 1-off folding-wing floatplane Short Admiralty Type 136 (1914) 1-off folding-wing floatplane Short Admiralty Type 166 (1914)...

different configurations: Standard bomb kit - 40 km With folding wing kit - 120 km With wing kit and Extended Range (ER) module - 200 km The weapon's...

stealthy complement to the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. It will have a larger, folding wing and larger control surfaces for improved low-speed control, and stronger...

Brothers developed and patented folding wing mechanisms for ship-borne aircraft from 1913; the wings were hinged so that they folded back horizontally alongside...

was a British two-seat reconnaissance, bombing and torpedo carrying folding-wing seaplane designed by Horace Short of Short Brothers. It was first flown...

prototype of the FC-31, but also includes a catapult launch bar and a folding wing mechanism. The prototype conducted a high-speed taxiing test and briefly...

Grumman designed the Avenger to also use the new Sto-Wing patented "compound angle" wing-folding mechanism, intended to maximize storage space on an aircraft...

aboard a car, boat or plane. Folding mechanisms vary, with each offering a distinct combination of folding speed, folding ease, compactness, ride, weight...

the company and the design was reworked - including the removal of the folding wing feature - that it entered production as the American Aviation AA-1 Yankee...

eliminate the folding tips, and square off the wingtips. The inboard edge of the aileron was moved outboard by one rib, and the wing fuel tanks were...

The Beardmore W.B.VI was a British single-engined folding wing torpedo bomber biplane of World War I developed by Beardmore. Data from General characteristics...

with a bending wing, intended to imitate more closely the folding wing action of birds, although it was not a true variable-span wing such as those of...

Hamilton Sundstrand TJ-150 turbojet as the JSOW-ER and MALD combined with a folding wing kit, providing an engagement range in excess of 140 km (86.9 mi). The...

different wing-folding mechanism. Both mayflies and dragonflies lack any of the smell centers in their brain found in Neoptera. The complexities of the wing-folding...

the aircraft had ruddervators with more serrations to reduce length, folding wing capability for flight deck storage, reinforced landing gear, tailhook...