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:

    “Ignorance is the curse of God,
    Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “the uncomfortable angels that rot
    On the slabs, a wing chipped here, an arm there:
    The brute curiosity of an angel’s stare
    Turns you, like them, to stone....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “I could replace
    God for awhile, that old ring of candles,
    that owl’s wing brushing the dew
    off my grass hair.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)