In contrast to the loose sails of early hang-gliders, today's craft rely on high-tech Mylar fabrics stretched over thin aluminium tubing along the leading edges and shaped aluminium ribs that give the wing its camber.
She is a tiny figure and yet her anguish is clearly visible in the hunched camber of her shoulders.In the centre of the picture there is great confusion.
In the Wright Flyer's case, an arrangement of cables and pulleys twisted the trailing edges of the wings in opposite directions, thereby increasing the camber (and thus the lift) of one wing relative to the other.
Skis are built with a camber, or a slight arch, so as to distribute the skier's weight along the length of the ski.
(These devices also alter the camber of the wing, increasing both lift and drag).
As airspeeds grew, there was a requirement for a very smooth passage of air over the surface, which was achieved in the laminar-flow airfoil, where the camber was farther back than contemporary practice dictated.
The 12 semicircular arches of portland stone, rising in a graceful camber over the river, set a high standard of engineering and architectural achievement for the next generation and stood for a hundred years.
It's an old karting trick, but F1 tyres are much more complex than kart tyres, and with the very high loadings experienced at Silverstone, allied to camber angles as great as 4 degrees at the rear and tyre pressures as low as 14 psi, some teams found themselves in trouble.
Squatting by the halfway flag you could barely see the tops of the advertisements opposite, such was Wembley's sumptuous camber, which dropped 11 inches from centre circle to touchline.
And though his comeback mount, Beatrice Aurore, was so awkward on the camber that he could barely ride her out, Dettori pronounced himself seamlessly at home.
The road arcs inland through increasingly mountainous terrain, trees crowding the camber, the ghost of a defunct railway line lying to one side.
