The crescent wing is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration in which a swept wing has a greater sweep angle on the inboard section than the outboard, giving the wing a crescent shape.
The planform attempts to reduce several unpleasant side-effects of the swept wing design, notably its tendency to "pitch-up", sometimes violently, when it nears a stall.
The crescentwing is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration in which a swept wing has a greater sweep angle on the inboard section than the outboard, giving...
The Fertile Crescent (Arabic: الهلال الخصيب) is a crescent-shaped region in the Middle East, spanning modern-day Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine...
country club style. The following year, architect Paul Williams added the CrescentWing. The strict resident owner of the Beverly Hills Hotel from 1958 until...
The Royal Crescent is a row of 30 terraced houses laid out in a sweeping crescent in the city of Bath, England. Designed by the architect John Wood, the...
research aircraft. The angle of a swept wing may also be varied, or cranked, along the span: Crescent: wing outer section is swept less sharply than...
Thunderceptor's wing that grew wider towards the tip to provide more lift at the tip. The Handley Page Victor was equipped with a crescentwing, with three...
Major differences from the proceeding Swift was the adoption of a crescentwing and a more powerful powerplant in the form of the reheated Rolls-Royce...
Lee developed a crescent-shaped swept wing for the HP.80. Aviation author Bill Gunston described the Victor's compound-sweep crescentwing as having been...
Caudellia apyrella, the crescent-winged caudellia moth, is a species of snout moth in the genus Caudellia. It was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr....
Handley Page's contribution was the HP.80 Victor, a four-engined, crescent-winged design. This aircraft remained in service (as a tanker aircraft) well...
with an experimental crescentwing with sweep back lessening towards the tips, evolved by Rüdiger Kosin and Walther Lehmann. The wing was constructed but...
test its delta wing design. The conference also decided to investigate the crescentwing concept as insurance against the favoured delta wing design being...
grey plumage and paler underparts, highlighted by yellow wing-patches and a broad, black crescent, outlined in white, down the sides of its breast. The species...
December 2019. "Lodha Bellissimo South Wing". Emporis. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. "Crescent Bay Tower 4". CTBUH Skyscraper Center. "Indiabulls...
little clue of the extent of the new wing, except when viewed from the position of the lake. The crescentwing was built by Anthony Hunt Associates and...
Rival manufacturer Handley Page received a prototype contract for its crescent-winged HP.80 B.35/46 tender in November 1947. Although considered the best...