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    An oblique wing (also called a slewed wing) is a variable geometry wing concept. On an aircraft so equipped, the wing is designed to rotate on center pivot...
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  • typography. Oblique wing, in aircraft design Oblique icebreaker, a special type of icegoing ship Oblique arytenoid muscle, in the neck Oblique cord, near...
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    such as the Ansaldo SVA, one wing was slightly longer than the other to help counteract engine torque. Oblique wing: one wing sweeps forward and the other...
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    NASA AD-1 (redirect from AD-1 Oblique Wing)
    demonstrated an aircraft wing that could be pivoted obliquely from zero to 60 degrees during flight. The unique oblique wing was demonstrated on a small...
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  • Asymmetrical aircraft (category Wing configurations)
    included: Messerschmitt P.1109 oblique wing jet Isaacson fighter-bomber, powered by two Napier Sabres. The NASA AD-1 includes oblique wings, and flew 1979-1982...
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    Ames staff. Later, still at Ames, Jones promoted the oblique wing. (The first known oblique wing design was the Blohm & Voss P.202, proposed by Richard...
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    The term "swept wing" is normally used to mean "swept back", but variants include forward sweep, variable sweep wings and oblique wings in which one...
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    SWIFT and the BAE Systems Taranis. List of flying wings Circular wing Oblique wing Vincent Burnelli Zanonia macrocarpa Crane, Dale: Dictionary of Aeronautical...
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  • Northrop Grumman Switchblade (category Oblique-wing aircraft)
    The Northrop Grumman Switchblade was a proposed variable sweep oblique wing unmanned aerial vehicle studied by Northrop Grumman for the United States....
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    forward, as in the oblique wing. Varying the sweep asymmetrically by small amounts was also fundamental to the principle of the wing controlled aerodyne...
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    improvement of P.1101 P.1107 not flown jet bomber design P.1109 not flown oblique wing fighter design P.1110 not flown high altitude interceptor prototype P...
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    contemporary computer user interface Northrop Grumman Switchblade: an unmanned oblique-wing flying aircraft for high speed, long range and long endurance flight...
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  • Blohm & Voss P.202 (category Oblique-wing aircraft)
    II. It was the first design to incorporate a slewed wing (also known as an oblique or scissor wing) in which one side swept forward and the other back...
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    The oblique order (also known as the 'declined flank') is a military tactic whereby an attacking army focuses its forces to attack a single enemy flank...
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    Electric GE36 and PW-Allison 578-DX propfan engine testbed NASA AD-1 – Oblique Wing NASA Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology experimental...
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    An oblique shock wave is a shock wave that, unlike a normal shock, is inclined with respect to the direction of incoming air. It occurs when a supersonic...
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    the F-111, F-14, F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire and Supercritical Wing, YF-12A, the oblique wing AD-1, Controlled Deep Stall Sailplane, sub-scale F-15 remotely...
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    Robert T. Jones's (a NASA researcher at NASA's Ames Research Center) oblique wing concept. Ames turned to Rutan, who designed a small, fiberglass airframe...
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    pilot on the F-14 Aileron Rudder Interconnect project, the NASA AD-1 Oblique wing research aircraft, and the F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire project. He also flew...
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    DRS RQ-15 Neptune, naval reconnaissance (2002) DRS Sentry HP DSI/NASA Oblique Wing RPV Excalibur unmanned aerial vehicle Fairchild SM-73 Bull Goose (WS-123A...
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  • Oblique Wing RPV Dassault Falcon 20 De Havilland Canada DHC-1A Chipmunk Delta Wing Mariah M-9 Delta Wing Model 162 Delta Wing Phoenix VI.B Delta Wing...
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  • AD-1 Skyraider, an attack aircraft developed in the 1940s NASA AD-1, an oblique-wing research aircraft developed in the 1970s AD1, a fictional masculinist...
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    country manor house with an oblique wing. It was designed by New York architect Frank E. Wallis, with a large recreation wing containing a ballroom, gymnasium...
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  • degrees between stowed and in-flight positions, similar to how an oblique wing works. The wing is stowed while being carried by its parent aircraft, and is...
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  • Columbia Robert L. Crippen, CAPT USN 1982 Thomas McMurtry, NASA AD-1 Oblique Wing Program 1983 John M. Hoffman, Lt Col USAF For Outstanding contribution...
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    The Winged Victory of Samothrace, or the Niké of Samothrace, is a votive monument originally discovered on the island of Samothrace, north of the Aegean...
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    species has a green body, an elongate cephalic process, and an apically oblique wing. It is distinguished from Odontoptera spectabilis by the cephalic process...
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  • Miller 2003, p. 58. Jordan, Holly (December 11, 2006). "Active Aeroelastic Wing flight research vehicle receives X-53 designation". United States Air Force...
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    species has a green body, an elongate cephalic process, and an apically oblique wing.[citation needed] Distinguished from Odontoptera spectabilis by the cephalic...
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    lumborum, Sacrospinalis, and Iliacus. Abdominal external oblique muscle Abdominal internal oblique muscle Transversus abdominis muscle Quadratus lumborum...
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