Sentence examples for shape of a wing from inspiring English sources

Biologists classify organisms according to specific sets of characteristics or "vectors": the shape of a wing, the length of a femur and so on.

That posed a problem for wing designers, because as the air is whipped around the curved shape of a wing, it briefly accelerates to supersonic speeds.

In the lobby there sit an emu skeleton, a stuffed flamingo and a bulldog sculpture; the reception desk is in the shape of a Spitfire wing, A cod-Victorian birdcage fits well with a real Victorian fireplace.

The centre, at the National Memorial to The Few at Capel le Ferne in Kent, will be in the shape of a Spitfire wing.

It will be in the shape of a Spitfire wing and is due to open in time for the 75th anniversary in 2015.

Draw the shape of a dress, wings and head onto the can.

Cayley found the secrets of lift in the shape of a bird's wing, surmising that an arched, or cambered, wing would produce greater lift than a flat wing because of lower pressure on top of the curved surface (see Bernoulli's theorem).

On the lowest level, viewable from a narrow corridor meant for gun-toting overseers, is Refraction, a swooping five-ton sculpture in the vague shape of a bird's wing.

The Los Angeles sale also includes a 1960's Lucite table lamp in the shape of a bird's wing designed by Joe Colombo, a Milanese architect born in 1930, and a 1954 vanity stool with Lucite legs designed by Paul Laszlo, a Viennese architect who settled in Beverly Hills in the 1930's.

Abu Dhabi, for example, is getting its own Louvre, designed by Jean Nouvel, as well as a national museum in the shape of a falcon's wing feathers by Norman Foster and a classic Gehry Guggenheim – like the one in Bilbao, but bigger.

The shape of a typical airplane wing is called an airfoil.