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flying wing
- Definição1
- An airplane that almost entirely consists of a wing. The engines and useful payload are carried inside the wing.
- Fonte1
- KUMAR, Bharat (ed.). An illustrated dictionary of aviation. New York: McGraw-Hill, c2005. 752 p.
- Fonte2
- INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION. The world of civil aviation 1995-1998. Montreal, 1996. (Cir. 265 AT/109).
- Contexto
- With conventional aircraft design capacity limits at around 900 seats , the major aircraft manufacturers were studying new concepts such as a "flying wing" or a "blended wing body" for markets beyond the year 2020.
- Subárea
- Aircraft
- Français
- aile volante
- Imagem
A Northrop N-1M on display at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.
Fonte: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Northrop_N-1M_Udvar-Hazy.jpg
