Sentence examples for aerofoil from inspiring English sources

Airfoil, also spelled Aerofoil, shaped surface, such as an airplane wing, tail, or propeller blade, that produces lift and drag when moved through the air.

Its aerofoil shape provides lift, but a pilot needs to regulate the airflow over it in order to control the aircraft.

The serpentine aerofoil shape is designed to face into what little wind there is, generating a small amount of lift.

The cells have to be bent over the curved aerofoil of the upper wing without disrupting the airflow, which would increase drag and thus reduce lift.

The aerofoil of a wing creates more lift than drag, but exactly how much depends on its design and the speed of the air passing over it.

The bearing housing includes 48 aerofoil vanes which guide air into the jet's compressor.

The results, just published in Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, show not only that flying snakes are surprisingly good aviators but also that they employ some complex aerodynamic tricks.A paradise tree snake flattens its body into an aerofoil-like shape that can provide a degree of lift before it takes off from a branch by jumping upwards.

By limiting shell thickness (which reduces weight), smoothing the shell contours (which reduces drag), and assuming an aerofoil-like leading edge, such scallops can awkwardly swim several metres at a time.

Although the races attract hundreds of thousands of spectators, most of them snatch only brief glimpses of the noisy four-wheeled inverted aeroplanes scudding around the tarmac, their aerofoils upside down to glue them to the track rather than lift them off a runway.

Turbine blades are shaped like aerofoils, with one side curved and the other almost flat.

The latest test drone takes a more conventional quadcopter shape with added aerofoils.