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‘Walking along the right wing of the swept-wing B - 1, Mike points into the slot where the wing slides against the body.’
‘The swept-wing monoplane jet with air-intakes on either side of the fuselage on a level with or just behind the pilot's cockpit belongs to a design tradition evolved in the 1940s.’
‘In some swept-wing aircraft, stepped extrusions are employed as machining blanks for spar caps with integral attachment fittings.’
‘It turns out Stu has a large holding of A-model Sabre parts and HFC wants to create an F - 86A - the first operational USAF swept-wing jet fighter.’
‘Taking advantage of German research done during World War II, American engineers made the F - 86 the US Air Force's first swept-wing jet fighter, with the initial production aircraft flying in May 1948.’
‘He directed the group's transition from the F9F - 5 Panther to the swept-wing Cougar.’
‘Initially, the D - 558-2 was a rocket- and jet-powered, swept-wing aircraft comparable to the Air Force's X - 2.’
‘There were two swept-wing craft moving down the runway below, flames shooting from their wings.’
‘The aircraft is of a conventional aerodynamic configuration with a high-set, swept-wing and T-shaped tail unit.’
‘The B - 45 was built before swept-wing theory was understood and was quickly overshadowed by the B - 47, which introduced thin, swept-back wings, six axial-flow jet engines mounted in pods, and ‘bicycle ‘main landing gear.’’
‘This ‘twist’ is a feature called ‘washout’, which virtually all swept-wing aircraft need to avoid stalling of the wingtips when flying at low speeds or at high Mach numbers.’
‘Among the treasures on show were a prototype bouncing bomb, and more than 30 historic aircraft, from the first swept-wing aircraft to land on an aircraft carrier to the gazelle helicopter in which the Duke of York learnt to fly.’
‘The British aircraft industry was badly lagging in the production of swept-wing fighters and the United States funded 430 Mk. 2 and Mk. 4 Sabres to equip the Royal Air Force.’
‘The optimization of swept-wing laminar flow to minimize drag, using real wing configurations, is an important aspect of the Phase II effort, DARPA said.’
‘The swept-wing bomber delivers - capable of flying from stateside bases to targets half a world away or launching from forward operating locations for extended engagements.’
‘She knows what an airplane is - she's been to France on one, after all, and even identified a picture of a swept-wing jet as an airplane despite its strange triangular configuration.’
‘Utilizing information captured from the Germans, innovative technologies were employed in transforming the straight-winged XFJ-1 into the swept-wing F-86 Sabre that would dominate the skies over Korea in the 1950s.’
‘The swept-wing research aircraft was carried aloft to the launch altitude of 32,000 feet by a Boeing P2B-S1 (the Navy designation of the B - 29 Superfortress) ‘mother ship ‘early on Nov. 20, 1953.’’
‘During the 1950s and 1960s, the Soviet design bureau Yakovlev was responsible for a series of swept-wing twin-engine jet combat aircraft.’