Wing

Wing

A wing is a type of fin with a surface that produces lift for flight or propulsion through the atmosphere, or through another gaseous or liquid fluid. As such, wings have an airfoil shape, a streamlined cross-sectional shape producing a useful lift to drag ratio.

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Famous quotes containing the word wing:

    “The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder,
    The wing trails like a banner in defeat,”
    —Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)

    “He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.”
    —Henry James (1843–1916)

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